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.
npx agentmods add instructions/azure-samples/sql-ai-samples/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure-Samples/SQL-AI-samplesWhat 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 | $0.03630 | $0.03630 |
| Opus 5 | $0.01815 | $0.01815 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00726 | $0.00726 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00363 | $0.00363 |
Grade A, and why
SQL-AI-samples 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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Guidelines for AI Assistants: Scaffolding SQL Database Projects for T/SQL Applications
This notebook guides AI assistants through a step-by-step chain-of-thought to generate a full SQL Database Application using the SQL project SDK, Microsoft.Build.Sql
Each database object must be placed in its own .sql file, organized into a coherent folder structure. (this makes it easier for VSCode agent-mode to work with files)
The application should expose Stored Procedures and Views for all operations (all tables should be hidden as internal to the application).
NOTES:
- You (the AI Agent) must not edit this file.
Summary
- Use SQL Database Projects (.sqlproj) to manage schema as code. (Target SQL Server 2019, as this is the latest version that tSQLt supports via a .dacpac)
- You can find the full documentation for
Sql Database Projectshere: - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/sql-docs/refs/heads/live/docs/tools/sql-database-projects/sql-database-projects.md
- Keep T/SQL scripts idempotent and version-controlled.
- For local deployment, use
sqlcmd create mssqlto create a local SQL Server instance. - use the helper script
create-mssql-instance-using-sqlcmd.ps1in the./.github/tsql/installfolder - To get the connection string, run
sqlcmd config connection-strings(use the helper scriptget-sql-connection-string.ps1in the./.github/tsql/installfolder).
Considerations
- Folder structure maps directly to SQL object types.
- Idempotency: scripts must handle repeated executions.
- Naming conventions align with best practices.
- After each step, you MUST:
- build (using
Build.ps1, which takes-ProjectNameas the single parameter)Build.ps1is in the./.github/tsql/inner-loopfolder.
- publish (using
Publish.ps1, which takes-ProjectNameas the single parameter)Publish.ps1is in the./.github/tsql/inner-loopfolder.Publish.ps1usesSqlPackageto publish the project to the SQL Server.
- build (using
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 278 lines · 3,630 tokens per session scan A a973d950bf2b
SQL-AI-samples copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure-Samples/SQL-AI-samples (331 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,630 tokens to every session, about $0.0181 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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