al-folio is a Jekyll starter for building academic websites, personal sites, and portfolios. It is used by academics who want a responsive site based on independently versioned plugin components.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add instructions/alshedivat/al-folio/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folioWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/alshedivat/al-folio/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/alshedivat/al-folio/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/alshedivat/al-folio/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00566 | $0.00566 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00283 | $0.00283 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00113 | $0.00113 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00057 | $0.00057 |
Grade A, and why
al-folio 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 5d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 28 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Copilot Coding Agent Instructions (v1.x)
Read AGENTS.md first — it is the authoritative entry point for all coding agents in this repo. It carries the change-routing table, the stop sign for gem-owned paths, the three silent failure modes, and the validated command set. This file previously duplicated that content; it is now a pointer so the rules cannot drift apart.
In short: al-folio v1.x is a thin Jekyll starter, not a theme. It owns starter wiring (Gemfile, _config.yml), example content, docs, integration tests, and visual parity tests. All runtime — layouts, includes, Sass, Liquid tags, filters, feature JS — lives in versioned gems under al-org-dev. Route runtime changes to the owning gem.
Where to look
| Question | File |
|---|---|
| Which repo does my change belong in? | AGENTS.md |
| Which gem owns this area? | docs/BOUNDARIES.md |
| Which gem owns this Liquid tag? | docs/ARCHITECTURE.md |
| Why did my feature render nothing? | docs/ARCHITECTURE.md |
| What commands should I run? | AGENTS.md |
| How do I contribute? | docs/CONTRIBUTING.md |
Copilot-specific paths
.github/agents/— custom agents (customize.agent.md,docs.agent.md)..github/instructions/— per-file-type instruction files (Liquid, YAML, BibTeX, Markdown, JavaScript)..github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml— pre-installs Ruby, Python, Node, ImageMagick, and nbconvert for the coding agent..agents/skills/— canonical agent skills, also exposed via the.codex/skillsand.claude/skillssymlinks.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 28 lines · 566 tokens per session scan A f5f7343e7a1c
al-folio copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository alshedivat/al-folio (16,089 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 566 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 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 2026-08-30.
Other instructions, from other repositories
sagarshah.dev AGENTS.md
Instructions for shahsagarm/sagarshah.dev, covering this is not the next.js you know, sagarshah.dev v2, commands, token contract (strongest rule in the repo) and architecture.
website AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for rimzzlabs/website, covering agents.md, commands, stack, structure and conventions.
website CLAUDE.md
Claude Code instructions for rimzzlabs/website: See AGENTS.md — the single source of truth for conventions, commands, architecture, and gotchas in this repo.
academic-homepage-cv-sync AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for kw1jjang/academic-homepage-cv-sync, covering project notes, what this repo is, prerequisites, cv ↔ website sync and workflow.
sagarshah.dev CLAUDE.md
Instructions for shahsagarm/sagarshah.dev: This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
academic-homepage-cv-sync CLAUDE.md
Claude Code instructions for kw1jjang/academic-homepage-cv-sync: See AGENTS.md — the instructions live there so that every coding agent reads the same file. Read it before editing anything in this repo.