Wireshark-MCP: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

Wireshark-MCP copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from bx33661/Wireshark-MCP. It costs 134 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Wireshark-MCP, a tool-assisted project for examining network packet captures. A packet capture is a recorded stream of network traffic used for troubleshooting, security checks, and protocol analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when analyzing captures, investigating incidents, checking network protocols, or troubleshooting traffic with exact filters, streams, frames, and confidence levels.
Why use it?
They provide a consistent investigation method and require observations to be separated from assumptions, reducing conclusions based on incomplete evidence.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is bx33661/Wireshark-MCP's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on Wireshark-MCP 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 Wireshark-MCP configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to bx33661/Wireshark-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.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bx33661/Wireshark-MCP/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bx33661/Wireshark-MCP

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 134 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 134 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 $0.00134 $0.00134
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00067
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00013

Measured 3d ago against content hash 693272a690d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Wireshark-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 3d 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 · 14 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Copilot Repository Instructions

For packet capture, protocol analysis, network security monitoring, incident response, and troubleshooting tasks, prefer the canonical project skill in skills/wireshark-traffic-analysis/.

Use the skill to:

  • start with wireshark_open_file and capture-wide context
  • use wireshark_aggregate for full-capture statistics instead of extrapolating from a page
  • choose the correct playbook before drilling into packets
  • separate observation from interpretation
  • report exact filters, stream indexes, frame numbers, and confidence

Do not treat Expert Info or a single heuristic as proof on their own.

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. 3d ago Changed · +1 lines · +22 tokens per session 693272a690d5
  2. 9d ago First seen · 13 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 7dbc19cee408

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Wireshark-MCP copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bx33661/Wireshark-MCP (235 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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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