GPT-RAG: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/lifecycle-hooks.instructions.md

GPT-RAG lifecycle-hooks.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Azure/GPT-RAG. It costs 159 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Deployment instructions for Azure/GPT-RAG lifecycle hooks, which are scripts that run at defined points during setup and deployment. They cover both PowerShell and shell-based workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing deployment hooks, environment handling, generated infrastructure, provisioning steps, or operator documentation.
Why use it?
They help keep deployment behavior consistent across operating systems and prevent failed setup steps from being hidden.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot ✓ vendor

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is Azure/GPT-RAG's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on GPT-RAG itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything GPT-RAG configures →

About the project

GPT-RAG is an Azure solution accelerator for building agentic retrieval-augmented generation systems, where agents use connected organizational sources to ground their answers. It is for organizations deploying secure RAG applications with Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Agent Framework, and Azure infrastructure. The catalogue add-ons provide agents, skills, and instructions for deploying and working with the accelerator.

Azure/GPT-RAG · 1,179 stars · on GitHub · aka.ms

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Azure/GPT-RAG. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/GPT-RAG/main/.github/instructions/lifecycle-hooks.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/GPT-RAG

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 159 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 159 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00159 $0.00159
Opus 5.5 $0.00064 $0.00064
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00016

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 84753a3866a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

GPT-RAG lifecycle-hooks.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.

.github/instructions/lifecycle-hooks.instructions.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

azd lifecycle hooks

  • Keep PowerShell and shell hooks behaviorally equivalent.
  • Treat hook ordering and environment-variable propagation as public deployment behavior.
  • Preserve azd environment reuse when component repositories are cloned and deployed.
  • Do not edit generated content under infra/; update root overrides or the pinned infrastructure source.
  • Quote paths and external input safely. Do not echo secrets or private Azure validation environment names.
  • Surface failed prerequisites and provisioning steps; do not continue with a success-shaped fallback.
  • Validate both platform variants when changing shared hook behavior.
  • Load documentation-consistency when the deployment flow or operator steps change.
Changes

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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 21 lines · 159 tokens per session scan A 84753a3866a1

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GPT-RAG lifecycle-hooks.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure/GPT-RAG (1,179 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 159 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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.

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