What is mcp-server-comparedge copilot-instructions.md?

Project instructions for a ComparEdge MCP server that provides structured information about software tools, including prices, features, alternatives, and category rankings. An MCP server is a service that an AI assistant can query through a standard interface.

Use it to search software tools, view their profiles and pricing, compare products, find alternatives, detect free plans, or view category rankings.

They explain how to connect the server to VS Code or GitHub Copilot and what information each available query provides. This avoids having to work out the server setup and tool names from scratch.

How comparedge/mcp-server-comparedge configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to comparedge/mcp-server-comparedge. 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/comparedge/mcp-server-comparedge/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/comparedge/mcp-server-comparedge

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/comparedge/mcp-server-comparedge/copilot-instructions/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/comparedge/mcp-server-comparedge/copilot-instructions)

Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 373 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 373 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00373	$0.00373
Opus 5.5	$0.00149	$0.00149
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00075	$0.00075
Haiku 4.5	$0.00037	$0.00037

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 784321cf99c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-server-comparedge 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 · 57 lines

What it actually says

ComparEdge MCP Server — Copilot Instructions

This repository contains the ComparEdge MCP server (@comparedge/mcp-server).

What this server does

Provides structured access to verified SaaS and AI tool data:

Pricing plans and tiers for 508+ products
Top alternatives and competitor comparisons
Feature comparisons and category rankings
Free tier detection

Setup in VS Code / GitHub Copilot

Add to your VS Code settings.json to enable Copilot to query ComparEdge data:

{
  "github.copilot.chat.mcp.servers": {
    "comparedge": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@comparedge/mcp-server"],
      "type": "stdio"
    }
  }
}

Or via .vscode/mcp.json in your project:

{
  "servers": {
    "comparedge": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@comparedge/mcp-server"],
      "type": "stdio"
    }
  }
}

Available tools

search_tools — Search by name, category, or keyword
get_tool — Full profile: pricing, features, rating
compare_tools — Side-by-side comparison of two tools
get_pricing — Detailed pricing plans with verified dates
get_alternatives — Top verified alternatives for any tool
get_leaderboard — Category rankings by rating
list_category — All tools in a category, with free_only filter
list_categories — All 45 supported categories

Data source

All data is fetched live from comparedge.com. No API key required.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 57 lines · 373 tokens per session scan A 784321cf99c9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcp-server-comparedge copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository comparedge/mcp-server-comparedge (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 373 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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.

Research claude mcp mcp-server model-context-protocol pricing saas

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mcp-server-comparedge: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot