codemap: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

codemap copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from beadnall/codemap. It costs 325 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for turning a codebase into an interactive isometric diagram, a tilted map that shows system parts and their connections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to fill the map’s data arrays, show services and dependencies, verify the HTML, render a PNG, and inspect the result.
Why use it?
They focus the diagram on verified repository facts instead of generic boxes that add little beyond a directory listing.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is beadnall/codemap's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on codemap 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 codemap configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/verify.py my-map.html.

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 325 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 325 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 $0.00325 $0.00325
Opus 5.5 $0.00130 $0.00130
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00065 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00032 $0.00032

Measured 2mo ago against content hash e4db4cb31bc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codemap 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 · 32 lines

What it actually says

codemap

This repository holds a skill for turning a codebase into an explorable isometric diagram. The full instructions are in SKILL.md — read that file and follow it when asked to map, diagram or visually explain how a system fits together.

Two things worth knowing before you start:

The drawing is already done. assets/template.html is a complete, self-contained page — isometric projection, panning, zooming, animation and the side panel all work. Building a map means replacing four data arrays, STATS, NODES, EDGES and REGIONS, plus the <title> and the <svg aria-label>. REGIONS draws a dashed outline around the parts of the system the repository does not own, and may be left empty.

The facts are the work. A diagram of boxes labelled Service, Database and API tells a reader nothing the directory listing would not have. Mine the repository for measured numbers, platform limits worked around, and comments explaining why a constant is what it is, and put real values on the edges.

Verify and render before handing anything over:

python3 scripts/verify.py my-map.html
python3 scripts/render.py my-map.html render.png

Look at the PNG. Several faults that matter — an empty panel from a bad default selection, labels clipped by the blocks in front of them — pass every static check and are obvious the moment the page is rendered.

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 · 32 lines · 325 tokens per session scan A e4db4cb31bc5

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codemap copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository beadnall/codemap (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 325 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-31.

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