What is all copilot-instructions.md?

A set of coding instructions for the Animica monorepo, a single repository containing several related projects. It explains the blockchain’s architecture, coding patterns, deterministic behaviour, data encoding, and configuration rules.

Use it when working on Animica’s consensus, execution layer, contracts, capabilities, SDKs, or user interfaces and when code must produce repeatable results.

It helps an agent navigate a large multi-project codebase while following its architecture and consistency requirements.

How animicaorg/all configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to animicaorg/all. 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/animicaorg/all/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/animicaorg/all

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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README.md

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Per session 2,351 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,351 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02351	$0.02351
Opus 5.5	$0.00940	$0.00940
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00470	$0.00470
Haiku 4.5	$0.00235	$0.00235

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c98efc4bd6e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

all 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 2mo 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 · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Instructions for Animica

This is a monorepo hosting a blockchain (PoIES consensus), execution layer (Python-VM), crypto infrastructure, SDKs (Python/TypeScript/Rust), and multiple UIs. Use this guide to navigate code patterns and workflows quickly.

Architecture Overview

Core layers:

Consensus (consensus/) — PoIES (Proof-of-Integrated-External-Services) accepts blocks using a deterministic score combining hash-share work + external proofs (AI, Quantum, Storage). Uses fixed-point μ-nats math, nullifier windows, and EMA-based difficulty retargeting.
Execution (execution/) — Deterministic state machine running Python-VM contracts. Canonical CBOR I/O, gas metering, journaled state, and deterministic receipts. No side effects; pure functions.
Capabilities (capabilities/) — Off-chain compute coordination for AI/Quantum jobs. Integrates with AICF (aicf/), which matches jobs to providers, settles payments, and enforces SLAs.
Contracts (contracts/) — User-written Python contracts compiled to IR, deployed on-chain, and invoked via standardized ABIs.
SDKs (sdk/) — Multi-language clients (Python omni_sdk, TypeScript @animica/sdk, Rust animica-sdk) for RPC, tx building, wallet, and contract interaction.

Integration:

Contracts (Python-VM) ──enqueue AI/Quantum──> AICF ──assign──> Providers
      ▲                                          │                  │
      │                                      PoIES proofs         execute
      └──Receipts(on-chain) <─ Proofs ◀─ Providers publish ────────┘

Key Patterns

Determinism & Canonical Encoding

All consensus paths must be pure (no network I/O, no clock). Randomness is seeded from chain data.
CBOR canonical: sorted keys, minimal int encoding. See spec/ for schemas (params.yaml, poies_policy.yaml, abi.schema.json, manifest.schema.json).
Fixed-point math: logs in μ-nats (micro-nats, int64). See consensus/math.py for safe arithmetic with rounding rules documented.
Gas: deterministic per-opcode costs in vm_py/gas_table.json; metering in execution/gas/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 174 lines · 2,351 tokens per session scan A c98efc4bd6e4

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all copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository animicaorg/all (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,351 tokens to every session, about $0.0094 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 2026-08-31.

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