kodeagent: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

kodeagent copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from barun-saha/kodeagent. It costs 173 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Coding-style instructions for Kodeagent, a minimal AI agent engine written in Python. They specify formatting, type hints, string quoting, docstrings, spacing, line length, and how to wrap long code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing or editing Python functions, classes, documentation strings, formatted strings, and long expressions according to the project’s style.
Why use it?
They keep contributions consistent and make the code easier to read and maintain. They also define conventions the agent should follow when adding or changing Python code.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is barun-saha/kodeagent's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on kodeagent 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 kodeagent configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to barun-saha/kodeagent. 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/barun-saha/kodeagent/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/barun-saha/kodeagent

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 173 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 173 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 $0.00173 $0.00173
Opus 5.5 $0.00069 $0.00069
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00017

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 22a0c455bb07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kodeagent 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

  1. In Python code, always use single quote for strings unless double quotes are necessary. Use triple double quotes for docstrings.
  2. When defining functions, always include type hints for parameters and return types.
  3. Except for logs, use f-strings for string formatting instead of other methods like % or .format().
  4. Use Google-style docstrings for all functions and classes.
  5. Two blank lines should precede top-level function and class definitions. One blank line between methods inside a class.
  6. Max line length is 100 characters. Use brackets to break long lines. Wrap long strings (or expressions) inside ( and ).
  7. Split long lines at braces, e.g., like this: my_function( param1, param2 ) NOT like this: my_function(param1, param2)
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 · 15 lines · 173 tokens per session scan A 22a0c455bb07

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kodeagent copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository barun-saha/kodeagent (45 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 173 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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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