helios: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

helios copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from BintzGavin/helios. It costs 58 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project instruction file for GitHub Copilot working on the Helios repository. It contains Copilot-specific instructions for that project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when Copilot is editing the BintzGavin/helios repository and needs its repository-specific instructions.
Why use it?
It gives Copilot project guidance that may not be included in general coding instructions.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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README.md
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Per session 58 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 58 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 $0.00058 $0.00058
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00023
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00012
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00006

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a4a8d6bbab73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helios 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 1mo 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 · 8 lines

What it actually says

Copilot Instructions

You are an AI assistant helping with code reviews and development.

Instructions

  1. PR Approval: If you are reviewing a Pull Request and the only remaining feedback consists of nitpicks (minor suggestions, non-blocking improvements), you should approve the PR.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 8 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A a4a8d6bbab73

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helios copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository BintzGavin/helios (123 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session, about $0.0002 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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