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/gogit 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 | $0.00502 | $0.00502 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00251 | $0.00251 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00100 | $0.00100 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00050 | $0.00050 |
Grade A, and why
azure-dev go.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 — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
applyTo:
- "**/*.go"
Modern Go (1.26+) — PR Review Guidelines
This project uses Go 1.26 (cli/azd/go.mod). Do not flag modern Go 1.26
features as errors.
new(expr) creates typed pointers from values
new(false), new(true), new(0), new("s") are valid Go 1.26. They
create a pointer to the given value. This replaces helper functions like
to.Ptr(val). Do NOT suggest boolPtr() or &localVar replacements.
Other modern patterns to accept (not flag)
errors.AsType[*T](err)— generic error unwrapping (replacesvar e *T; errors.As(err, &e))for i := range n— range over integerst.Context()— test context (replacescontext.Background()in tests)t.Chdir(dir)— test directory change (replacesos.Chdir+ deferred restore)wg.Go(func() { ... })— WaitGroup shorthand (replaceswg.Add(1); go func() { defer wg.Done(); ... }())min(),max(),clear()— built-in functions
Review the full file, not just the diff
Before flagging missing imports or undefined references, verify the symbol isn't already defined in unchanged portions of the file. The diff context may not show all existing imports or declarations.
CLI behavior and domain filtering
- When reviewing command input resolution, explicit CLI args and flags should win over defaults. Do not prompt the user toward a different default when they provided a valid new value; reserve prompts for ambiguous choices and preserve deterministic
--no-promptbehavior for CI/scripts. - When reviewing flag validation: if a flag was explicitly set (verifiable via
cmd.Flags().Changed("<name>")) but the code path would silently ignore it, that is a bug. Reject the combination with a clear error — "success with dropped flags" breaks automation scripts. - When filtering AI models or quota data by location, keep location-specific usage data associated with only the models available in that location. Empty or unknown usage data from an unrelated location must not make a model eligible elsewhere; add regression coverage for cross-location quota cases.
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 · 35 lines · 502 tokens per session scan A 0a8f4d3a2188
azure-dev go.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure/azure-dev (567 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 502 tokens to every session, about $0.0025 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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