agent-triage: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

agent-triage copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from converra/agent-triage. It costs 262 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of coding rules for agent-triage, a TypeScript tool that diagnoses how AI agents behave in production. It documents the project's patterns, structure, and testing commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying agent-triage so suggestions follow its TypeScript, testing, prompt, trace-processing, and tool-registration conventions.
Why use it?
It gives an AI coding assistant the project context needed to suggest changes that fit the existing codebase.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is converra/agent-triage's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on agent-triage 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 agent-triage configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 262 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 262 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.
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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 $0.00262 $0.00262
Opus 5.5 $0.00105 $0.00105
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00052 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00026

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 4bfef2c24c75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-triage 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 · 28 lines

What it actually says

Copilot Instructions for agent-triage

Project Context

agent-triage is a TypeScript CLI tool, MCP server, and library for diagnosing AI agents in production. It extracts behavioral policies from system prompts, evaluates traces, and generates diagnostic reports.

Code Style

  • TypeScript strict mode, ESM modules
  • Use .js extensions in import paths (TypeScript ESM convention)
  • Early returns, small functions, descriptive names
  • Conventional commits: feat:, fix:, test:, docs:

Key Patterns

  • All trace connectors normalize to NormalizedConversation from src/ingestion/types.ts
  • LLM calls go through createLlmClient() from src/llm/client.ts
  • Prompt templates in src/llm/prompts.ts return structured JSON
  • MCP tools use registerTool() with zod schemas
  • Tests use vitest, mock LLM responses, live in test/

When Suggesting Code

  • Prefer editing existing files over creating new ones
  • Follow the existing patterns in the nearest similar file
  • Add tests for new functionality in the corresponding test/ path
  • Run npm test and npm run lint to verify changes
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 · 28 lines · 262 tokens per session scan A 4bfef2c24c75

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agent-triage copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository converra/agent-triage (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 262 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 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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