skillsmith copilot-instructions.md

skillsmith copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from ApexIQ/skillsmith. It costs 138 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of GitHub Copilot instructions describing the project, its technology stack, required context files, workflow, and verification expectations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide Copilot through project context, relevant skills, repeatable workflows, and checks before claiming work is complete.
Why use it?
It gives Copilot the background and working rules needed to make repository-aware suggestions and changes.

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/apexiq/skillsmith/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ApexIQ/skillsmith

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 138 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 138 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.
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 $0.00138 $0.00138
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.00069
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00014

Measured today against content hash dc32b9d00600, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skillsmith 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 today.

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 · 21 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Copilot Instructions

Project Overview

  • Idea: Project using skillsmith
  • Stage: existing
  • Stack: click, pytest, arch-business-logic, arch-ui, arch-unknown

Required Context

  • AGENTS.md
  • .agent/STATE.md
  • .agent/lessons.md
  • .agent/project_profile.yaml
  • .agent/context/project-context.md
  • Trusted publisher public keys: none
  • Publisher signature scheme mode: auto

Workflow

  • Search .agent/skills/ for relevant task guidance.
  • Use .agent/workflows/ and tool-native commands for repeatable flows.
  • Verify before claiming completion.
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. today First seen · 21 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A dc32b9d00600

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skillsmith copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ApexIQ/skillsmith (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.