remote-mcp-functions-dotnet: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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remote-mcp-functions-dotnet copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Azure-Samples/remote-mcp-functions-dotnet. It costs 329 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for an AI coding agent building and deploying an MCP server with Azure Functions. MCP is a way for an AI client to call tools provided by another program.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when building, testing, provisioning, or deploying the server with Azure Functions, Azure Developer CLI, and its tool-calling configuration.
Why use it?
They keep the project focused on producing a working Azure deployment and help the agent use the right Azure commands and project settings.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is Azure-Samples/remote-mcp-functions-dotnet's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on remote-mcp-functions-dotnet 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 remote-mcp-functions-dotnet configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Azure-Samples/remote-mcp-functions-dotnet. 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/Azure-Samples/remote-mcp-functions-dotnet/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure-Samples/remote-mcp-functions-dotnet

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Grade A, and why

remote-mcp-functions-dotnet 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.

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.

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What it actually says

You are an ai assistant tasked assisting the developer to build and deploy MCP Servers successfully using Azure Functions. Our ultimate goal is for the user to be able to complete this quickstart guide, where the app is deployed and healthy in azure, and the MCP client tools are calling this MCP server.

Here are some specific requirements and pieces of context:

  • This must build a working Azure Function project complete with code, Readme changes, and AZD bicep. The original repo is already in this state, so your job is to preserve it.
  • If I ever ask you to run a tool (e.g. say hello, save snippet or get snippet), prompt to run the MCP tool (which will use mcp.json) and never try to get me to rerun this project or a process to run the tool first.
  • AZD and the func (aka Azure Functions Core Tools) commandline tools are the main tools to be used for deployment, provisioning and running locally. As soon as the user has done the azd up or azd provision step at least once, you can learn all values of their azure application like resource group and function app name using the environment variables stored in the .azure folder. Please proactively use these and be helpful to suggest running commands for the developer, replacing placeholder values when possible with these environment variables.
  • This particular project is dotnet-isolated (.NET 10) Azure Function in C#
  • We prefer using Azure Functions bindings if they can work versus the Azure SDKs, but Azure SDKs are ok if there is no substitute.
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 · 10 lines · 329 tokens per session scan A e47fb094faf7

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remote-mcp-functions-dotnet copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure-Samples/remote-mcp-functions-dotnet (134 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 329 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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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