specship copilot-instructions.md

specship copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from bonnguyenitc/specship. It costs 393 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide for specship, a system that moves software tasks through stages such as understanding, planning, coding, review, debugging, and release. TDD means writing tests before or alongside the implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage a non-trivial feature from initial specification through implementation, review, debugging, and shipping.
Why use it?
It keeps the task’s requirements, plan, progress, checks, and debugging notes together instead of losing them during development.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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/bonnguyenitc/specship/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bonnguyenitc/specship

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 393 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 393 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 5.1 $0.00393 $0.00393
Opus 5 $0.00197 $0.00197
Sonnet 5 $0.00079 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.00039

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8d687fb3ccac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

specship 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 5d 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 · 24 lines

What it actually says

Agent feature workflow (specship)

For any non-trivial change, follow .specship/skills/WORKFLOW.md and the per-stage playbooks in .specship/skills/ss-<stage>/SKILL.md.

Stages (every skill folder is ss--prefixed):

  • ss-spec → understand the request → tasks/TASK-<ID>/spec.md
  • ss-plan → design steps → tasks/TASK-<ID>/plan.md
  • ss-coding → implement (TDD or conventional), tick S#
  • ss-review → run the full gate, verify every AC#tasks/TASK-<ID>/review.md
  • ss-debug → when a defect appears, log it in tasks/TASK-<ID>/debug.md, fix, resume
  • ss-ship → autopilot: given a feature request, run spec → plan → coding → review end-to-end
  • ss-resume-task, ss-pause-task, ss-archive-task → task lifecycle without losing pipeline state
  • ss-research → answer an external-fact question with the strongest search tool available (specialized MCP search first) → complete cited report in docs/research/

The ss- prefix names skills only — stage:/artifacts: values in task.md stay unprefixed (spec, plan, coding, review, debug, done).

Maintain shared state in tasks/TASK-<ID>/: read task.md first, update it last, keep IDs stable, and timestamp every log entry as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM +TZ using date. Only the pipeline stages and lifecycle skills write to tasks/. Don't run git add/commit/push unless asked.

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. 5d ago First seen · 24 lines · 393 tokens per session scan A 8d687fb3ccac

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specship copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bonnguyenitc/specship (2 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 393 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 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.