alpacon-mcp: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

alpacon-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from alpacax/alpacon-mcp. It costs 438 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for Alpacon MCP that defines writing rules, technology names, formatting conventions, and code practices. Alpacon MCP connects AI assistants to zero-trust infrastructure access.

In plain words
What is it for?
For writing and reviewing code, documentation, headings, lists, and configuration related to the Alpacon MCP server. It also specifies how to refer to tools and technologies such as MCP, Websh, and WebFTP.
Why use it?
It gives contributors consistent language and formatting, and helps prevent project-specific terms or conventions from being used incorrectly.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is alpacax/alpacon-mcp's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on alpacon-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything alpacon-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to alpacax/alpacon-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alpacax/alpacon-mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alpacax/alpacon-mcp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 438 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 438 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00438 $0.00438
Opus 5 $0.00219 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00088 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00044 $0.00044

Measured 7d ago against content hash 93b22fd6638b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alpacon-mcp copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Copilot instructions

Writing style

General rules

  • Sentence case: Use sentence case for all headings and titles (capitalize only the first word and proper nouns)
    • Correct: "## Available MCP tools", "### Key architecture principles"
    • Incorrect: "## Available MCP Tools", "### Key Architecture Principles"
  • Em-dash: No spaces around em-dashes
    • Correct: "remote/streamable-http mode—not stdio"
    • Incorrect: "remote/streamable-http mode — not stdio"
  • Itemized descriptions: Use a colon, not a dash, to separate an item from its description in bullet lists
    • Correct: - `list_servers`: List all servers in workspace
    • Incorrect: - `list_servers` - List all servers in workspace

Technology names

  • Websh: Always use "Websh" (not "WebSH") for the web shell. This MCP server exposes no Websh tools, but the term still appears in settings and audit surfaces
    • Correct: websh_session_timeout, "Websh session analysis"
    • Incorrect: webSH_session_timeout, "WebSH session analysis"
  • WebFTP: Use "WebFTP" for file transfer functionality
  • MCP: Use "MCP" for Model Context Protocol

Code conventions

  • Imports: Keep imports at the top of the file. A function/method-local import needs a real reason—breaking a circular import, gating an optional/heavy dependency, or deferring for a documented ordering hazard—stated in a one-line comment
    • Correct: # Local: real circular import—tools/resources.py imports server at its own top level. followed by the import
    • Incorrect: an import placed inside a function body with no comment explaining why

Language guidelines

  • All code comments, documentation, commit messages, PR titles/descriptions, docstrings, and variable/function/class names: English only
  • User-facing CLI/console output messages: English, matching the rest of the project
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 31 lines · 438 tokens per session scan A 93b22fd6638b

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alpacon-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository alpacax/alpacon-mcp (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 438 tokens to every session, about $0.0022 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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