claude copilot-instructions.md

Repository instructions for AI coding assistants working with an Azure starter project that connects Anthropic's Claude models to Microsoft Foundry. They explain the project structure, setup choices, environment variables, and working rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Helping with setup, deployment failures, quota checks, cleanup, and code changes in the Claude on Foundry Starter Kit.
Why use it?
They give an assistant the project's rules and deployment context, reducing guesses about which setup, commands, or configuration to use.

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/azure-samples/claude/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure-Samples/claude

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 1,668 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,668 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.01668 $0.01668
Opus 5 $0.00834 $0.00834
Sonnet 5 $0.00334 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00167 $0.00167

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9f0c3b0589d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

claude copilot-instructions.md scanned grade B 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 3d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

4. **Confirm before destructive actions.** Always get explicit user OK before: `az cognitiveservices account purge`, `azd down`, `az role assignment delete`, deleting `.azure-cli/`, editing `~/.claude/settings.json`.
.github/copilot-instructions.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository instructions for Copilot (and other AI assistants)

Anyone with Copilot Chat (or another AI assistant that reads .github/copilot-instructions.md and AGENTS.md) clones this repo and instantly gets a guided experience. Ask the assistant in plain English — "help me deploy", "my deployment failed", "clean up and free quota" — and it follows the conventions below plus the deep playbook in skills/claude-on-foundry/SKILL.md.

This is the Claude on Foundry Starter Kit (Azure-Samples/claude · aka.ms/claude/start). It provisions a Microsoft Foundry account with Claude model deployments via azd up, and wires the Anthropic SDK + Claude Code CLI to it using Microsoft Entra ID (no API keys).

Repo shape — never assume, always check

  • Two IaC variants ship side-by-side. The user picks ONE. Never edit or run both.
  • Two hooks fire automatically during azd up (defined in each variant's azure.yaml):
    • preprovisionscripts/preflight-claude.ps1 / .sh — marketplace catalog + quota check, hard-fails early on missing offers or insufficient TPM.
    • postprovisionscripts/configure-claude-code.ps1 / .sh — writes activator files + .vscode/settings.json + .claude/settings.json so Claude Code and the SDK target the new Foundry deployment via Entra ID.
  • One canonical catalog tool: ./Get-ClaudeCatalog.ps1. Zero-required-params. Run with -Latest for the newest generation per family.
  • One verifier: scripts/verify-claude-code.ps1 — end-to-end smoke test (-SkipClaudeCall for config-only, -RunPythonSample for full SDK round trip).

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 57 lines · 1,668 tokens per session scan B 9f0c3b0589d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure-Samples/claude (36 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,668 tokens to every session, about $0.0083 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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