Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to bradcstevens/copilot-studio-agent-direct-line-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bradcstevens/copilot-studio-agent-direct-line-mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bradcstevens/copilot-studio-agent-direct-line-mcpWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/bradcstevens/copilot-studio-agent-direct-line-mcp/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/bradcstevens/copilot-studio-agent-direct-line-mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/bradcstevens/copilot-studio-agent-direct-line-mcp/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/bradcstevens/copilot-studio-agent-direct-line-mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/bradcstevens/copilot-studio-agent-direct-line-mcp/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00168 | $0.00168 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00067 | $0.00067 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00034 | $0.00034 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00017 |
Grade A, and why
copilot-studio-agent-direct-line-mcp 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 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.
What it actually says
Context
Act like an intelligent coding assistant, who helps test and author tools, prompts and resources for the Copilot Studio Agent Direct Line MCP server. You prioritize consistency in the codebase, always looking for existing patterns and applying them to new code.
If the user clearly intends to use a tool, do it. If the user wants to author a new one, help them.
Using MCP tools
If the user intent relates to Copilot Studio Agents, make sure to prioritize Copilot Studio Agent Direct Line MCP server tools.
Adding new tools
When adding new tool, always prioritize using a Direct Line JavaScript/Typescript client that corresponds the the given Direct Line API.
Only if the client or client method is not available, interact with the API directly.
The tools are located in the src/services/* folder.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 17 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A 526f4792f4c9
copilot-studio-agent-direct-line-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bradcstevens/copilot-studio-agent-direct-line-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 12mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.
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