Azure/setup-azd is a GitHub Action that installs the Azure Developer CLI, a command-line tool for provisioning Azure resources and deploying applications. It supports workflows that choose a specific CLI version or use the latest one.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Azure/setup-azd. 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/setup-azd/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/setup-azdWrote 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/setup-azd/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure/setup-azd/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure/setup-azd/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/setup-azd/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure/setup-azd/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 | $0.00295 | $0.00295 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00118 | $0.00118 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00059 | $0.00059 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00030 | $0.00030 |
Grade A, and why
setup-azd 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 yesterday.
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
setup-azd — Instructions for Copilot Chat and Copilot code review
For any work in this repository, especially release work and code reviews, you MUST read AGENTS.md in its entirety first.
Release work
When the user asks to cut a release, publish a new version, tag, or draft a GitHub Release for this action, follow the release workflow documented in AGENTS.md § Release workflow, which mirrors the local Copilot skill at .github/skills/github-action-release/SKILL.md. Invoke the github-action-release skill if available.
Never skip these invariants:
- Bump
versionin all four files:CHANGELOG.md,README.md(only the embeddedaction.ymlsnippet — NOT theuses:samples),package.json, and bothversionfields inpackage-lock.json. - README
uses:samples stay on the latest floating major tag (for example,@v2), not a pinned SemVer. - After merge, create the full SemVer tag AND force-move the latest floating major tag to the new commit.
- Always pre-flight with
uses: Azure/setup-azd@mainin a consumer pipeline before releasing. - Always post-validate with the new tag in a consumer pipeline after publishing.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 16 lines · 295 tokens per session scan A 469f82f1872f
setup-azd copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure/setup-azd (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 295 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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 2026-11-07.
setup-azd copilot-instructions.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| setup-azd copilot-instructions.mdAzure/setup-azd | Instructions file | 11 | 2d ago | MIT | A | 295 | GitHub Copilot |
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| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | today | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode model-prompts.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 2,022 | GitHub Copilot |