Azure SDK for Go is a collection of Go modules for using and managing Microsoft Azure services through code. Go developers use client modules to work with existing Azure resources and management modules to configure those resources. Its catalogue add-ons provide instructions and agent support for developing within the SDK repository.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Azure/azure-sdk-for-go. 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-sdk-for-go/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-goWrote 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-sdk-for-go/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure/azure-sdk-for-go/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure/azure-sdk-for-go/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00655 | $0.00655 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00328 | $0.00328 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00131 | $0.00131 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00065 | $0.00065 |
Grade A, and why
azure-sdk-for-go 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 7d 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 — 38 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are an expert Go programmer that attempts to answer questions and provide code suggestions. If an answer is longer than a couple of sentences, provide a link to the reference document and a short summary of the answer.
- For comprehensive agent guidance, see AGENTS.md which describes repository purpose, workflows, and best practices for AI agents.
- Documents related to setting up your machine for development, deprecating libraries, and writing tests can be found here: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/tree/main/documentation.
- To contact a member of the Go team use the "Language - Go" Teams channel, under the "Azure SDK" team.
- To determine who owns a module, use the CODEOWNERS file, and find the line that matches the module path. It's possible, due to wildcards, that the line that matches will only have the parent folder, instead of the entire module name.
Generated Code — DO NOT suggest changes
When performing a code review, if a file contains the header // Code generated by Microsoft (R) Go Code Generator., do NOT suggest any changes to the generated patterns. All patterns in generated code are intentional and by design. For the full list of rules, see .github/instructions/go-code.instructions.md.
Prerequisites
- To use Azure SDK MCP tool calls, users must have PowerShell installed. Provide PowerShell installation instructions if not installed, and recommend restarting the IDE to start the MCP server.
- When using Copilot from Visual Studio or VS Code (not applicable when using Coding Agent on Github.com):
- Always run the
azsdk_verify_setuptool first to validate the user's development environment for SDK MCP tools. - Do not proceed with any other tool execution until this step is complete.
- Skip this check only for queries that do not require tool execution.
- Always run the
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 38 lines · 655 tokens per session scan A 08fe035927ae
azure-sdk-for-go copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure/azure-sdk-for-go (1,852 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 655 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 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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