magda-core: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

magda-core copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Conceptual-Machines/magda-core. It costs 3,400 tokens per session, scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A set of GitHub Copilot instructions for the magda-core repository, guiding how code reviews should assess reported issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing GitHub issues or code changes for critical bugs, performance problems, and clarity or maintainability concerns.
Why use it?
It gives reviews a consistent order of attention, helping reviewers focus first on serious bugs, then performance, then readability.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is Conceptual-Machines/magda-core's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on magda-core 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 magda-core configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 3,400 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3,400 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 unknown 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 $0.03400 $0.03400
Opus 5.5 $0.01360 $0.01360
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00680 $0.00680
Haiku 4.5 $0.00340 $0.00340

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 99a470af8ee9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

magda-core 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 · 262 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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. 1mo ago Changed 99a470af8ee9
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 262 lines · 3,400 tokens per session scan A 4fbfe3da03de

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magda-core copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Conceptual-Machines/magda-core (254 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 3,400 tokens to every session, about $0.0136 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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