mcp_xpp: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

mcp_xpp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from ccampora/mcp_xpp. It costs 313 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for an experimental tool that lets coding agents create, change, and navigate Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations code through MCP, a standard way for programs to call tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating tables, entities, enums, and forms; navigating the codebase; running the project’s build and test tasks; and organizing internal documentation and unversioned files.
Why use it?
They reduce mistakes when changing D365 objects by requiring documented creation recipes, approved build commands, and clear rules for test and temporary files.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is ccampora/mcp_xpp's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on mcp_xpp 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 mcp_xpp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ccampora/mcp_xpp. 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/ccampora/mcp_xpp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ccampora/mcp_xpp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 313 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 313 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 $0.00313 $0.00313
Opus 5.5 $0.00125 $0.00125
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00063 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00031 $0.00031

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ca3da4f35a43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp_xpp 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Golden Rules:

  1. DO NOT use Emojis in the code
  2. If you are creating test suites or adhoc test file, use the clients provided in the tests/tools folder
  3. You will use the Build and Run Task only, do not attempt to build differentely
  4. Avoid hardcoding. If you need to hardcode, you MUST ask first
  5. Any adhoc tests, misc files, outputs, and/or anything that should not be versioned, put it in the misc folder.
  6. Internal documentation must be place in docs/internal folder.

D365 Object Creation: 7. Before creating D365 objects (tables, entities, enums, forms) via MCP tools, ALWAYS read the creation recipes in docs/internal/d365-creation-recipes/ first. These contain proven parameter sets, required defaults, and known pitfalls.

  • docs/internal/d365-creation-recipes/README.md - Index and overview
  • docs/internal/d365-creation-recipes/table-field-defaults.md - Required default params per field type
  • docs/internal/d365-creation-recipes/table-creation.md - Table creation recipe
  • docs/internal/d365-creation-recipes/data-entity-with-staging.md - Data entity + staging table recipe
  • docs/internal/d365-creation-recipes/common-property-gotchas.md - Known pitfalls and solutions
  1. When you discover new required parameters, patterns, or gotchas during D365 object creation, update the relevant recipe file immediately so the knowledge is not lost.
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. 2mo ago First seen · 16 lines · 313 tokens per session scan A ca3da4f35a43

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mcp_xpp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ccampora/mcp_xpp (42 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 313 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-30.

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