StrategiesforTestingAI: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

StrategiesforTestingAI copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Coveros/StrategiesforTestingAI. It costs 242 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of Copilot instructions for an application-security demonstration project. It defines the project’s goals, expected behavior, safety limits, and default response style.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for configuring Copilot during application-security demonstrations, including its operating mode, priorities, and response rules.
Why use it?
It gives Copilot consistent guidance for security-related work and helps keep its output within agreed safety limits.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is Coveros/StrategiesforTestingAI's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on StrategiesforTestingAI 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 StrategiesforTestingAI configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 242 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 242 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 $0.00242 $0.00242
Opus 5.5 $0.00097 $0.00097
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00048 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00024

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a33a7546b851, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

StrategiesforTestingAI 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 · 32 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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 First seen · 32 lines · 242 tokens per session scan A a33a7546b851

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StrategiesforTestingAI copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Coveros/StrategiesforTestingAI (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 242 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 2026-08-30.

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