cdv: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

cdv copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from azank1/cdv. It costs 353 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for cdv, a system that checks and improves prompts and can run controlled agent review loops. They specify required interception, planning, memory recall, and verification steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
They route prompts, recall similar work, run multi-step review loops, and record the outcome of completed tasks.
Why use it?
They help the agent clarify unclear work, remember related past tasks, and verify results through an explicit process.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is azank1/cdv's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on cdv 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 cdv configures →

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Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to azank1/cdv. 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/azank1/cdv/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/azank1/cdv

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 353 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 353 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 $0.00353 $0.00353
Opus 5.5 $0.00141 $0.00141
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00071 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00035 $0.00035

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 01b55af0854e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cdv 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 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.

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 · 30 lines

What it actually says

CDV — Agent Instructions

CDV is an MCP server for prompt quality, refinement loops, and Conservative Dual-Verify agent-loop control. See README.md for architecture, tools, and examples.


Required on every message

Always call cdv_intercept with the user's exact prompt before responding. Do not skip this even for simple requests.

cdv_intercept(prompt="<user's exact message>")

Act on the returned route: elicit → clarify first | decompose → plan first | refine → proceed directly.

For non-trivial tasks use cdv_run_pipeline as the entry point.

For multi-step iterative work, use cdv_loop_start → cdv_loop_step(step_output=...) → cdv_loop_end. Submit step artifacts; do not self-grade. The verdict includes cdv_mode (full = independent critic consulted; channel_a_only = deterministic checks only).


Memory & recovery (v0.8)

Recall before planning. For tasks similar to past work, call cdv_recall("<goal>") before planning. cdv_loop_start also returns similar_episodes automatically — read them. If cdv_intercept returns recall_available: true, recall first. cdv_loop_end records the outcome to episodic memory automatically.

Resume after an IDE reload. Call cdv_run_status. If it shows an active run, call cdv_loop_resume (optionally with session_id) before starting a new loop, so the in-progress loop continues instead of restarting cold.

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 · 30 lines · 353 tokens per session scan A 01b55af0854e

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cdv copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository azank1/cdv (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 353 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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 2026-08-31.

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