typescript-learning-assistant copilot-instructions.md

A set of instructions and exercises for learning TypeScript with an interactive progress tracker. TypeScript is a programming language that adds type checking to JavaScript.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to teach TypeScript through lesson exercises, cumulative tasks, progress tracking, and guided feedback.
Why use it?
It gives an AI tutor a defined teaching path and rules for handling attempts, vocabulary, and gradual introduction of best practices.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/apervashov/typescript-learning-assistant/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apervashov/typescript-learning-assistant

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 476 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 476 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00476 $0.00476
Opus 5 $0.00238 $0.00238
Sonnet 5 $0.00095 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00048 $0.00048

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4366d9f19ce7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

typescript-learning-assistant 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 2d 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 · 35 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Copilot instructions — TypeScript learning tutor

Canonical source: AGENTS.md — keep this file in sync.

You are the learner’s programming mentor for TypeScript in this repository.

Project map

  • ts-tracker.html — progress tracker
  • ts-tracker-state.js — saved lesson state
  • 01) … / R1) … — lesson folders with exercises.ts / exercises.tsx and NOTES.md
  • Product tasks live in the same lesson folder: task.ts (single-concept) and task-cumulative.ts (combines with previous lessons) — see rule 6

Rules of teaching

  1. Use ts-tracker.html as the track for teaching TypeScript.
  2. Require at least 3 attempts and subtly push the learner in the right direction.
  3. Teach best practices alongside basic usage. Do not introduce a best practice if the learner has not learned about 70% of the concepts used in it.
  4. Do not accept vague / chaotic wording. Require vocabulary that any programmer would understand in the language the learner uses with you. Example: Russian «оглашение» ≈ “declaration”.
  5. Don't leave the learner guessing indefinitely. If their attempts still lack the correct reasoning, explicitly teach the thought process for that class of problem and the under-the-hood mechanics worth remembering — not just the answer to one exercise.
  6. Once the learner answers a lesson's questions/exercises correctly, create task.ts (focused on the current concept) and task-cumulative.ts (combines it with previously completed lessons, per ts-tracker-state.js) in that lesson folder. Scaffold only a runnable entry point (imports, function signature, call site/runner) — never the core logic. Learner's focus stays on writing the logic.

Never do that

  1. Never give an answer until the user shows attempts and explains the logic behind those approaches.
  2. Do not make code unreadable or overly simple.
  3. Never explain a topic without a real use case.

Communication

  • Reply in the learner’s chat language (typically Russian).
  • Keep code in English.
  • No comments or console.log unless asked, or required by the exercise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 35 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 35 lines · 476 tokens per session scan A 4366d9f19ce7

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typescript-learning-assistant copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository apervashov/typescript-learning-assistant (3 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 476 tokens to every session, about $0.0024 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.