gis-agent-skills: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

gis-agent-skills copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from danmaps/gis-agent-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of instructions for a GIS coding agent working with ArcGIS Pro, ArcPy, and the ArcGIS REST API. The REST API is a web interface for sending requests to ArcGIS services, and the instructions favor workflows with clear inputs, outputs, and checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding an agent through GIS work in ArcGIS Pro, ArcPy scripts, and ArcGIS web-service requests.
Why use it?
GIS tasks can change data or maps in ways that are hard to inspect afterward. These instructions encourage safer workflows and validation before results are accepted.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 50 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 50 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 $0.00050 $0.00050
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00020
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00010
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00005

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 89b91e43d22b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gis-agent-skills 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.

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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. 2mo ago First seen · 4 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 89b91e43d22b

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gis-agent-skills copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository danmaps/gis-agent-skills (30 stars, last pushed 24d ago), with no licence file. It adds 50 tokens to every session, about $0.0002 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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