What is VisioIntegration copilot-instructions.md?

Project instructions for an MCP server that helps create Azure architecture diagrams. Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform, and MCP is a standard way for AI assistants to use external tools.

Adding or changing diagram tools, Azure resource shapes, layouts, templates, exporters, validators, or the applications that use the server.

They give contributors the project's structure and rules for producing diagrams, validating cloud designs, and supporting its web app, VS Code extension, and desktop app.

How CloudDaddyZA/VisioIntegration configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to CloudDaddyZA/VisioIntegration. 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/CloudDaddyZA/VisioIntegration/master/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CloudDaddyZA/VisioIntegration

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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README.md

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When invoked 1,690 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
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Opus 5.5	$0.00676	$0.00676
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00338	$0.00338
Haiku 4.5	$0.00169	$0.00169

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b829d5155829, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

VisioIntegration 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 1mo 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 · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Instructions — Azure Visio MCP

Project Overview

This is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for creating production-quality Azure architecture diagrams. It exposes 31 tools, 8 resources, and 7 prompts via FastMCP (Python) and is consumed by:

A Streamlit web app (app/)
A VS Code extension with GitHub Copilot Chat participant @azureVisio (vscode-extension/)
A PyInstaller desktop app (desktop.spec)

Architecture

MCP Server: src/visio_mcp/server.py — central tool hub
Data Models: src/visio_mcp/models.py — Pydantic models (DiagramState, DiagramResource, Connection, BoundaryGroup)
State Manager: src/visio_mcp/diagram_state.py — DiagramManager class
Renderers: visio_engine.py (.vsdx via COM), drawio_engine.py (.drawio XML), and mermaid_engine.py (.mmd flowchart text)
Validators: waf_validator.py (5 WAF pillars) and caf_validator.py (7 CAF principles)
Layout: layout_engine.py — tiered/grid/grouped auto-layout
Catalog: azure_catalog.py — 151 Azure resource shapes with SVG icon paths
References: reference_architectures.py — 16 templates, 14 styles, 50 design patterns
Pricing: azure_sku_grounding.py — live Azure Retail Prices API

Key Conventions

Resource Types

Always use the canonical resource_type from AZURE_SHAPE_CATALOG (e.g., virtual_machine, app_service, sql_database). Common aliases are resolved automatically (aks → kubernetes_service, apim → api_management, vm → virtual_machine).

CAF Naming

Resources should follow Cloud Adoption Framework naming prefixes:

VMs: vm-, App Services: app-, SQL: sql-, VNets: vnet-, Subnets: snet-
Key Vault: kv-, Storage: st, AKS: aks-, Container Registry: cr

Boundary Types

Use: resource_group, virtual_network, subnet, subscription, region, availability_zone, security_boundary

Positions & Layout

Coordinates are in inches (Visio page units). Default page: 11×8.5 inches.
Let auto_layout handle positioning — don't hardcode unless replicating a reference architecture.
When adding resources to a boundary with group_id, positions auto-calculate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

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.

1mo ago First seen · 147 lines · 1,690 tokens per session scan A b829d5155829

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VisioIntegration copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository CloudDaddyZA/VisioIntegration (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,690 tokens to every session, about $0.0068 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.

Cloud Design and UX DevOps and cloud ai architecture-diagrams azure cloud-adoption-framework drawio mcp

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

VisioIntegration: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot