What is flock copilot-instructions.md?

Repository instructions for Flock, a C++ extension that lets DuckDB run large-language-model and retrieval-based tasks through SQL. DuckDB is a database designed to run inside applications, and retrieval-based tasks find relevant information before generating an answer.

Use them when developing Flock's SQL functions for text generation, filtering, embeddings, or hybrid search, and when building or testing the DuckDB extension.

They give coding agents the project's build, dependency, layout, and release requirements, reducing mistakes when changing or compiling the extension.

How dais-polymtl/flock configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dais-polymtl/flock. 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/dais-polymtl/flock/dev/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dais-polymtl/flock

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

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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 1,406 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,406 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 1 finding. 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	$0.01406	$0.01406
Opus 5.5	$0.00562	$0.00562
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00281	$0.00281
Haiku 4.5	$0.00141	$0.00141

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c790ca19975a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flock copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Key dependencies**: `nlohmann-json`, `curl`, `gtest` (see `vcpkg.json`)

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Instructions for Flock

Overview

Flock is a C++ DuckDB extension that integrates LLMs (Large Language Models) and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) into DuckDB through declarative SQL queries. It supports OpenAI, Azure, and Ollama providers and enables semantic functions such as llm_complete, llm_filter, llm_embedding, and hybrid search directly from SQL.

Language: C++17
Build system: CMake (3.5+) with DuckDB's extension CI tools (extension-ci-tools/)
Dependency manager: vcpkg (managed via vcpkg.json)
Key dependencies: nlohmann-json, curl, gtest (see vcpkg.json)
DuckDB version targeted: v1.5.3 (see MainDistributionPipeline.yml)

Repository Layout

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├── CMakeLists.txt              # Top-level CMake (builds static + loadable extension, unit tests)
├── extension_config.cmake      # DuckDB extension load config (references this repo)
├── vcpkg.json                  # vcpkg dependency manifest
├── Makefile                    # Convenience targets (lf_setup, lf_setup_dev)
├── scripts/
│   ├── build_and_run.sh        # Interactive guided build + run script
│   ├── build_project.sh        # Non-interactive build script
│   └── setup_vcpkg.sh          # vcpkg bootstrap
├── src/
│   ├── flock_extension.cpp     # Extension entry point (LoadInternal, FlockExtension::Load)
│   ├── include/flock/          # Public headers
│   ├── core/                   # Config, common utilities
│   ├── functions/              # Scalar and aggregate SQL functions
│   ├── model_manager/          # Provider integrations (OpenAI, Azure, Ollama)
│   ├── prompt_manager/         # Prompt management
│   ├── secret_manager/         # API key/secret handling
│   ├── registry/               # Model/prompt registries
│   ├── metrics/                # Metrics collection
│   └── custom_parser/          # Custom SQL parser extension
├── test/
│   ├── unit/                   # C++ unit tests (GTest), built via CMake
│   └── integration/            # Python integration tests (pytest, uv)
├── duckdb/                     # DuckDB source submodule
├── extension-ci-tools/         # DuckDB extension CI/build helpers submodule
├── .clang-format               # clang-format config (LLVM style, IndentWidth=4, ColumnLimit=0)
├── .cmake-format               # cmake-format config
└── .pre-commit-config.yaml     # Pre-commit hooks: clang-format v18.1.8, cmake-format v0.6.13

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

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 · 128 lines · 1,406 tokens per session scan A c790ca19975a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

flock copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dais-polymtl/flock (359 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,406 tokens to every session, about $0.0056 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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