Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Azure-Samples/snippy. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure-Samples/snippy/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure-Samples/snippyWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure-samples/snippy/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure-samples/snippy/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure-samples/snippy/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80Γ15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure-samples/snippy/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure-samples/snippy/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00548 | $0.00548 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00219 | $0.00219 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00110 | $0.00110 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00055 | $0.00055 |
Grade A, and why
snippy copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories β prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency β 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.
What it actually says
π Code-generation instructions
- Always target Azure Functions Python v2 (
azure-functions >= 1.23, blueprint model). - Create the global
app = func.FunctionApp()once and callapp.register_blueprint(bp). - Durable orchestrators must be
def(sync) and useyield+context.task_all(...). - Activity functions should be
async defand return JSON-serialisable data. - Use type hints throughout and a one-line Google-style docstring summary.
- Use
logging(level INFO) instead ofprint. - Access secrets via
os.environ[...]; never commit literals. - Default to Python 3.11 features (e.g.,
matchstatements are allowed). - When calling Azure SDKs, prefer their async variants (
BlobServiceClient.from_connection_string, etc.). - Return HTTP results with
azure.functions.HttpResponseand do notawaitsync methods (req.get_json(),client.create_check_status_response()).
π Test-generation instructions
- Use pytest + pytest-asyncio.
- Mark async tests with
@pytest.mark.asyncio. - Patch Azure SDK calls with
unittest.mock.AsyncMock / MagicMock. - Aim for 100 % branch coverage of orchestrator fan-out/fan-in paths.
- Keep test payloads small; embed them inline rather than external files.
π Code-review instructions
- Verify no synchronous APIs are accidentally
awaited. - Ensure every orchestrator is registered in a blueprint and yields on tasks.
- Check for missing logging, un-handled exceptions, or secret leakage.
- Confirm environment-variable names match those used in
local.settings.json. - Flag any direct network calls inside orchestrators (should be in activities).
π Commit-message generation instructions
- Follow Conventional Commits (
feat:,fix:,test:,chore:β¦). - First line β€ 72 chars, present-tense imperative.
- Include a short body describing why and reference issues
(fixes #123).
π Pull-request title/description instructions
- Title: Imperative, β€ 60 chars (e.g., βfeat: add Cosmos vector searchβ).
- Description:
- What & why (one paragraph).
- β### Changesβ bullet list.
- β### Testingβ explaining manual/automated tests.
- β### Notesβ for env vars, breaking changes, or deployment steps.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen Β· 38 lines Β· 548 tokens per session scan A f7d92d19b5ec
snippy copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure-Samples/snippy (114 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 548 tokens to every session, about $0.0022 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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