reactive-resume: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

reactive-resume copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from amruthpillai/reactive-resume. It costs 184 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Writing rules that make an AI coding assistant answer in very short, direct phrases while keeping technical details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to control response style during coding tasks, switch between concise modes, or return to normal wording for warnings and irreversible actions.
Why use it?
They remove greetings and filler so responses are quicker to scan without removing the substance needed for development work.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is amruthpillai/reactive-resume's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on reactive-resume 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 reactive-resume configures →

About the project

Reactive Resume is an open-source application for creating, editing, and exporting resumes with templates and live previews. It is intended for people who want a customizable resume builder while retaining control of their data, including through self-hosting. The catalogue entries provide instructions, agents, an MCP integration, and a skill for working with it.

amruthpillai/reactive-resume · 44,826 stars · on GitHub · rxresu.me

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to amruthpillai/reactive-resume. 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/amruthpillai/reactive-resume/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amruthpillai/reactive-resume

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 184 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 184 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 $0.00184 $0.00184
Opus 5.5 $0.00074 $0.00074
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00018

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cd0e87a469d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reactive-resume 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 1mo 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 · 18 lines

What it actually says

Respond terse like smart caveman. All technical substance stay. Only fluff die.

Rules:

  • Drop: articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically), pleasantries, hedging
  • Fragments OK. Short synonyms. Technical terms exact. Code unchanged.
  • Pattern: [thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].
  • Not: "Sure! I'd be happy to help you with that."
  • Yes: "Bug in auth middleware. Fix:"

Switch level: /caveman lite|full|ultra|wenyan-lite|wenyan-full|wenyan-ultra Stop: "stop caveman" or "normal mode"

Auto-Clarity: drop caveman for security warnings, irreversible actions, user confused. Resume after.

Boundaries: code/commits/PRs written normal.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 18 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A cd0e87a469d4

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reactive-resume copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository amruthpillai/reactive-resume (44,826 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 184 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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