copilot-governance: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/global-skills.instructions.md

copilot-governance global-skills.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from chf3198/copilot-governance. It costs 235 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository-wide instructions for routing coding tasks between specialized agents and applying standard checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting tasks, classifying work, loading required instructions, and coordinating checks for runtime, remote execution, OpenClaw, web changes, and GitHub operations.
Why use it?
They give the repository a consistent process for deciding who handles work and which checks must run. This reduces missed handoffs and validation steps.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: built for openclaw.

This is chf3198/copilot-governance's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on copilot-governance 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 copilot-governance configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to chf3198/copilot-governance. 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/chf3198/copilot-governance/main/.github/instructions/global-skills.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chf3198/copilot-governance

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 235 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 235 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 $0.00235 $0.00235
Opus 5.5 $0.00094 $0.00094
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00047 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00023

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 721c8ebe3913, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copilot-governance global-skills.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/instructions/global-skills.instructions.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Global skills routing contract for this repository (standard):

  1. Run role-baton-orchestrator at task start: Manager → Collaborator → Admin → Consultant. Emit handoff artifacts at each transition. Skip only for trivial tasks (single Q&A, no state changes).
  2. Run repo-standards-router for task classification and gates.
  3. Load openclaw-universal-system as the machine-global OpenClaw baseline.
  4. For tasks that could benefit from remote execution or offloading, load network-platform-resources.
  5. For OpenClaw-backed execution, load openclaw-availability-utilization and enforce preflight + utilization checks.
  6. For runtime/UI changes, run web-regression-governance before final validation.
  7. For GitHub governance controls, hand off to github-ops-tree-router.
  8. Run workflow-self-anneal only after failures or process drift.
  9. Keep changes additive and preserve existing repository instructions.
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 · 18 lines · 235 tokens per session scan A 721c8ebe3913

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copilot-governance global-skills.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository chf3198/copilot-governance (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 235 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 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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