Arcanum: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

Arcanum copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from cyberAlchemyAI/Arcanum. It costs 149 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A repository instruction file that tells Copilot how to work with Arcanum, a framework and registry for reusable agent capabilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding Copilot while developing or maintaining Arcanum.
Why use it?
It gives Copilot project-specific rules and context when working in that repository.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 149 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 149 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00149 $0.00149
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.00075
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00030
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00015

Measured 3d ago against content hash e9142121760b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Arcanum 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 3d 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 · 14 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 14 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A e9142121760b

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Arcanum copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cyberAlchemyAI/Arcanum (25 stars, last pushed 5d ago), with no licence file. It adds 149 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.

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