HomeLab: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

HomeLab copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from ArthurVardevanyan/HomeLab. It costs 110 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Unlicense.

Short project instructions for HomeLab that point coding agents to the repository's main conventions and reusable skills. They also identify Kubernetes guidance for configuration files, Helm charts, and Kustomize overlays.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when beginning work in the HomeLab repository, especially tasks involving Kubernetes manifests, Helm, or Kustomize.
Why use it?
They give the agent the correct entry points for project-specific rules instead of putting all conventions in one file. The supplied text does not describe the actual HomeLab operations in detail.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 110 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 110 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00110 $0.00110
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00055
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00011

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6aaa35d0a043, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

HomeLab 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 7d 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 · 11 lines

What it actually says

Copilot Instructions

See the repository root for project conventions and agent skills:

  • AGENTS.md — agent entry point
  • SKILL.md — HomeLab skill (cluster auth, repo conventions, related skills index)
  • Kubernetes (KubeShark) — production-grade Kubernetes manifest, Helm, and Kustomize guidance with a failure-mode workflow and Conditional Reference Retrieval.
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. 7d ago First seen · 11 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 6aaa35d0a043

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HomeLab copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ArthurVardevanyan/HomeLab (21 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Unlicense. It adds 110 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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