agent2: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

agent2 copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Artesiana/agent2. It costs 215 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Coding instructions for Agent2, a framework that turns domain experts’ processes into typed AI agents. It uses PydanticAI for agent behavior and FastAPI for web applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding agents, defining their output schemas, registering tools, building API entry points, or changing shared framework code.
Why use it?
It keeps agent implementations and shared framework code consistent, including their data models, tools, configuration, errors, and file layout.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is Artesiana/agent2's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on agent2 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 agent2 configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Artesiana/agent2. 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/Artesiana/agent2/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Artesiana/agent2

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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agent2 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.

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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 · 27 lines

What it actually says

Agent2 Copilot Instructions

This is Agent2, a framework for turning domain experts into production AI agents. Built on PydanticAI and FastAPI.

When writing agent code:

  • Import create_agent from shared.runtime
  • Import create_app from shared.api
  • Define output schemas as Pydantic BaseModel with Field() descriptions
  • Use @agent.tool_plain for tool registration
  • Use instructions= parameter (not system_prompt=)

When writing framework code (shared/):

  • Always use from future import annotations
  • Errors must be RFC 7807 via ProblemError
  • Config must use frozen dataclasses
  • Type hints on all function signatures

File structure for agents:

agents// init.py schemas.py - Pydantic output model agent.py - create_agent() + tool registration tools.py - Domain logic functions config.yaml - Agent configuration main.py - create_app() entrypoint Dockerfile - Docker build instructions

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. 2mo ago First seen · 27 lines · 215 tokens per session scan A b7236c934b2d

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agent2 copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Artesiana/agent2 (37 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 215 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 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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