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/azure-dev/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/azure-devWhat 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 | $0.00064 | $0.00064 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00032 | $0.00032 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00013 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00006 |
Grade A, and why
azure-dev 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.
What it actually says
Azure Developer CLI (azd) - Instructions for Copilot Chat and Copilot code review
For any work in this repository, especially for code reviews, you MUST read cli/azd/AGENTS.md in its entirety (every line) first.
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 · 4 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A d57c84f43981
azure-dev copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure/azure-dev (567 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session, about $0.0003 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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