Awesome azd is a curated collection of articles, videos, tutorials, documentation, and ready-to-use templates for the Azure Developer CLI, a tool for coding, building, deploying, and monitoring applications on Azure. Developers use it to learn azd and find application templates with Bicep or Terraform infrastructure definitions. The catalogue add-ons support working with this resource collection and its Azure development workflows.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Azure/awesome-azd. 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/awesome-azd/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/awesome-azdWrote 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/awesome-azd/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure/awesome-azd/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure/awesome-azd/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 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/awesome-azd/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure/awesome-azd/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 | $0.03275 | $0.03275 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01310 | $0.01310 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00655 | $0.00655 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00328 | $0.00328 |
Grade A, and why
awesome-azd copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A 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 9d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
3. Test website accessibility: `curl -f "http://localhost:3000/awesome-azd/"` 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.
Awesome Azure Developer CLI (azd)
Awesome azd is a Docusaurus-based website showcasing Azure Developer CLI templates. The site serves as a discovery platform for azd templates, provides contribution guides, and hosts a searchable gallery of community and Microsoft-authored templates.
Always reference these instructions first and fallback to search or bash commands only when you encounter unexpected information that does not match the info here.
Working Effectively
Bootstrap, build, and test the repository:
- Ensure Node.js 24.11+ is available:
node --versionmust satisfywebsite/package.json'sengines.noderange - Navigate to website directory:
cd website - Install dependencies:
npm ci-- takes ~15-60 seconds with warnings about deprecated packages (this is normal) - Check application types:
npm run typecheck - Run tests:
npm test-- takes ~1 second. NEVER CANCEL. Set timeout to 30+ seconds. - Build the website:
npm run build-- takes ~75 seconds. NEVER CANCEL. Set timeout to 120+ seconds. - Start development server:
npm run start-- takes ~30 seconds to compile. NEVER CANCEL. Set timeout to 60+ seconds. - Serve production build:
npm run serve-- starts immediately after build
Critical Timing and Timeout Requirements
- npm ci: 15-60 seconds (normal with deprecated package warnings about rimraf, glob, inflight)
- npm test: 1 second (set timeout to 30+ seconds)
- npm run build: 75 seconds (set timeout to 120+ seconds)
- npm run start: 30 seconds initial compile (set timeout to 60+ seconds)
- NEVER CANCEL any build or test commands - they will complete successfully
Manual Validation Requirements
After making any changes to the website, ALWAYS validate functionality by:
- Start the development server:
cd website && npm run start - Wait for "Compiled successfully" message
- Test website accessibility:
curl -f "http://localhost:3000/awesome-azd/" - Navigate to key pages and verify:
- Homepage displays template gallery correctly
- Getting Started page loads with video and action cards
- Contribute page shows documentation
- All navigation links work
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.
- 9d ago Changed · +2 lines · +35 tokens per session e97d32606dc5
- 2mo ago First seen · 276 lines · 3,240 tokens per session scan A d97644166943
awesome-azd copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure/awesome-azd (273 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,275 tokens to every session, about $0.0131 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
awesome-azd copilot-instructions.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| awesome-azd copilot-instructions.mdAzure/awesome-azd | Instructions file | 273 | 3d ago | MIT | A | 3,275 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
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| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |