AAA: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

AAA copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from ariffazil/AAA. It costs 2,337 tokens per session, scanned C, original, AGPL-3.0.

Copilot instructions for the AAA project, including its rules for following a stated constitutional instruction hierarchy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working with AAA’s Copilot instructions or checking whether a proposed change follows the project’s rules.
Why use it?
They help distinguish correct project guidance from violations of that guidance.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is ariffazil/AAA's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on AAA 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 AAA configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 2,337 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,337 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.02337 $0.02337
Opus 5.5 $0.00935 $0.00935
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00467 $0.00467
Haiku 4.5 $0.00234 $0.00234

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6c8a455f8c70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

AAA copilot-instructions.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

Flag any DELETE, DROP, rm -rf, truncate, or overwrite operation without a backup assertion.
.github/copilot-instructions.md · 220 lines

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Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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 · 220 lines · 2,337 tokens per session scan C 6c8a455f8c70

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AAA copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ariffazil/AAA (0 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 2,337 tokens to every session, about $0.0093 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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