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deer-flow copilot-instructions.md

An onboarding guide for DeerFlow, a full-stack AI agent application with a Python backend and a Next.js web frontend. It documents the required tools, repository commands, and local and Docker startup options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a development machine, start DeerFlow locally or with Docker, find build and test commands, and understand the main backend, frontend, and service components.
Why use it?
It gives contributors one verified starting point for understanding the system, installing its dependencies, and running or checking the application.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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View the source file bytedance/deer-flow
Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/bytedance/deer-flow/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bytedance/deer-flow

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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When invoked 1,714 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.
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Sonnet 5 $0.00343 $0.00343
Haiku 4.5 $0.00171 $0.00171

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Security

Grade A, and why

deer-flow 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Onboarding Instructions for DeerFlow

Use this file as the default operating guide for this repository. Follow it first, and only search the codebase when this file is incomplete or incorrect.

1) Repository Summary

DeerFlow is a full-stack "super agent harness".

  • Backend: Python 3.12, LangGraph + FastAPI gateway, sandbox/tool system, memory, MCP integration.
  • Frontend: Next.js 16 + React 19 + TypeScript + pnpm.
  • Local dev entrypoint: root Makefile starts backend + frontend + nginx on http://localhost:2026.
  • Docker dev entrypoint: make docker-* (mode-aware provisioner startup from config.yaml).

Current repo footprint is medium-large (backend service, frontend app, docker stack, skills library, docs).

2) Runtime and Toolchain Requirements

Validated in this repo on macOS:

  • Node.js >=22 (validated with Node 23.11.0)
  • pnpm (repo expects lockfile generated by pnpm 10; validated with pnpm 10.26.2 and 10.15.0)
  • Python >=3.12 (CI uses 3.12)
  • uv (validated with 0.7.20)
  • nginx (required for make dev unified local endpoint)

Always run from repo root unless a command explicitly says otherwise.

3) Build/Test/Lint/Run - Verified Command Sequences

These were executed and validated in this repository.

A. Bootstrap and install

  1. Check prerequisites:
make check

Observed: passes when required tools are installed.

  1. Install dependencies (recommended order: backend then frontend, as implemented by make install):
make install

B. Backend CI-equivalent validation

Run from backend/:

make lint
make test

Validated results:

  • make lint: pass (ruff check .)
  • make test: pass (277 passed, 15 warnings in ~76.6s)

CI parity:

  • .github/workflows/backend-unit-tests.yml runs on pull requests.
  • CI executes uv sync --group dev, then make lint, then make test in backend/.

C. Frontend validation

Run from frontend/.

Recommended reliable sequence:

pnpm lint
pnpm typecheck
BETTER_AUTH_SECRET=local-dev-secret pnpm build

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Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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deer-flow copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bytedance/deer-flow (81,129 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,714 tokens to every session, about $0.0086 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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