.NET C# standards

Coding rules for C# files in a .NET project, including safer references, clear access levels, focused methods, and documentation for public code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing C# classes, methods, and input handling in a .NET codebase.
Why use it?
It keeps C# code consistent and helps prevent common mistakes when different developers or agents edit the same project.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/bitia-srl/bitia-vs-code-copilot-examples/dotnet
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bitia-srl/bitia-vs-code-copilot-examples

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 110 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 110 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00110 $0.00110
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00055
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00011

Measured 2d ago against content hash caa8a0a5f098, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

.NET C# standards 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 2d 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.

exercises/01-custom-instructions/.github/instructions/dotnet.instructions.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

.NET / C# file instructions

For C# files in this repository:

  • Use nullable reference types and explicit access modifiers.
  • Prefer var only when the type is obvious from the right-hand side.
  • Use ArgumentException/ArgumentNullException for invalid inputs.
  • Keep methods focused and side-effect free when possible.
  • Use XML documentation comments on public members.
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. 2d ago First seen · 15 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A caa8a0a5f098

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.NET C# standards is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bitia-srl/bitia-vs-code-copilot-examples (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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