Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Azure/azure-mcp. 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/azure-mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/azure-mcpWrote 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/azure-mcp/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure/azure-mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure/azure-mcp/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/azure-mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure/azure-mcp/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 | $0.00246 | $0.00246 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00098 | $0.00098 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00049 | $0.00049 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00025 | $0.00025 |
Grade A, and why
azure-mcp 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 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
Coding Instructions for GitHub Copilot
- Always use primary constructors in C#
- Always run dotnet build after making a change
- Always use System.Text.Json over Newtonsoft
- Always put new classes and interfaces in separate files
- Always make members static if they can be
- All generated code needs to be AOT safe
- Always review your own code for consistency, maintainability, and testability
- Always ask for clarifications if the request is ambiguous or lacks sufficient context.
Engineering System
- Use
./eng/scripts/Build-Local.ps1 -UsePaths -VerifyNpxto verify changes to powershell, c# project files and npm packages - Don't run local builds to check pipeline YAML files (e.g., files in
eng/pipelines/with.ymlextension)
Pull Request Guidelines
- Ensure all tests pass
- Follow the contribution guidelines
- Include appropriate documentation
- Include tests that cover your changes
- Update CHANGELOG.md with your changes
- Run
.\eng\common\spelling\Invoke-Cspell.ps1
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 · 24 lines · 246 tokens per session scan A 70a8de6788c3
azure-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure/azure-mcp (1,223 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 246 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 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.
azure-mcp copilot-instructions.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| azure-mcp copilot-instructions.mdAzure/azure-mcp | Instructions file | 1.2k | 9mo ago | MIT | A | 246 | 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 |