calva-backseat-driver: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/changelog.instructions.md

calva-backseat-driver changelog.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver. It costs 224 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of conventions for writing CHANGELOG.md, the file that records changes users may notice in a software extension.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for documenting features, bug fixes, breaking changes, setting changes, and workarounds, with issue links when available.
Why use it?
It helps separate user-facing changes from internal development work and keeps entries in a consistent format.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on calva-backseat-driver 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 calva-backseat-driver configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver. 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/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/master/.github/instructions/changelog.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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When invoked 224 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.

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Opus 5 $0.00112 $0.00112
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00022

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7ee746154874, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

calva-backseat-driver changelog.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 9d 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/changelog.instructions.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Changelog Conventions

Audience

The changelog is for users of the extension, not developers. Entries describe changes that affect how the extension works from a user's perspective.

What belongs in the changelog

  • New features and tools
  • Bug fixes
  • Breaking changes or migration notes
  • Changes to default behavior or settings
  • Workarounds for external issues that affect users

What does not belong

  • Internal refactoring, code quality improvements, or restructuring
  • Developer tooling changes (build scripts, test infrastructure)
  • Dependency updates with no user-visible effect

Git history serves developer-facing change tracking.

Entry format

Follow the established pattern in the file — link to GitHub issues when available:

- [Brief description of user-visible change](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/N)
- Fix: Description of what was broken and how it's fixed
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. 9d ago First seen · 36 lines · 224 tokens per session scan A 7ee746154874

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calva-backseat-driver changelog.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver (64 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 224 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 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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