windows-mtr: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/rust.instructions.md

windows-mtr rust.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from benjisho/windows-mtr. It costs 136 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project-specific instructions for developing a Rust command-line program that combines traceroute and ping on Windows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when modifying the windows-mtr project, especially for Rust code changes, tests, formatting, and compatibility checks.
Why use it?
They keep code changes compatible with the existing command-line behavior and require checks that catch formatting, lint, and test failures.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is benjisho/windows-mtr's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on windows-mtr 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 windows-mtr configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to benjisho/windows-mtr. 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/benjisho/windows-mtr/master/.github/instructions/rust.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benjisho/windows-mtr

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 136 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 136 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 $0.00136 $0.00136
Opus 5.5 $0.00054 $0.00054
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00014

Measured 2mo ago against content hash da24439e41ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

windows-mtr rust.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/rust.instructions.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

Rust code generation instructions for windows-mtr

  • Preserve CLI compatibility unless explicitly requested.
  • Follow existing error handling patterns and avoid silent fallbacks.
  • Add or adjust tests for behavior changes.
  • Prefer minimal diffs; avoid broad refactors unrelated to the task.
  • Validate with:
    • cargo fmt --all -- --check
    • cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
    • cargo test --all
  • If checks cannot run, state the exact environment blocker and stop short of fabrication.
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 · 136 tokens per session scan A da24439e41ca

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windows-mtr rust.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository benjisho/windows-mtr (11 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 136 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-02.

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