What is ado-asana-sync copilot-instructions.md?

A set of coding instructions for a Python project that synchronizes tasks between Azure DevOps and Asana. It describes the project structure, setup steps, important files, and development practices.

Use it when setting up the project, changing task or pull-request synchronization, working with either service's API, or checking code quality.

It helps an agent understand how the synchronization tool is organized and avoid guessing where changes belong or how the project should be run.

How danstis/ado-asana-sync configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to danstis/ado-asana-sync. 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/danstis/ado-asana-sync/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danstis/ado-asana-sync

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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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 · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Agent Guide

This document provides guidance for Copilot agents contributing to the Azure DevOps (ADO) and Asana synchronization project. Please read carefully to understand the project context, setup, and contribution guidelines.

Project Context

This repository provides a robust tool for synchronizing tasks between Azure DevOps and Asana. The main logic is located in the ado_asana_sync directory, focusing on seamless task synchronization between the two platforms.

Getting Started

Install uv to manage dependencies and environments.
Run uv sync --dev to set up all required dependencies.
Copy .env.example to .env and fill in all necessary environment variables as described in the example file.

Development Practices

Key files:

ado_asana_sync/sync/app.py: Main entry point.
ado_asana_sync/sync/sync.py: Core sync logic.
ado_asana_sync/sync/asana.py: Handles Asana API.
ado_asana_sync/sync/task_item.py: Task data structure.
ado_asana_sync/sync/pull_request_item.py: Pull request data structure.
ado_asana_sync/sync/pr_sync_core.py: PR sync orchestration (top-level sync functions).
ado_asana_sync/sync/pr_processor.py: Logic for processing individual PRs and reviewers.
ado_asana_sync/sync/pr_asana_helpers.py: Asana API helpers specific to PRs.
ado_asana_sync/sync/pull_request_sync.py: Re-export facade for backward compatibility.
ado_asana_sync/database/connection.py: SQLite Database and DatabaseTable classes exposing search_by_json_fields, update_by_json_fields, upsert_by_json_fields, and remove_by_json_fields for index-backed queries.
ado_asana_sync/database/migrations.py: Schema versioning and migration helper mixin (DatabaseMigrationsMixin); currently at schema version 3 with indexes on ado_id, asana_gid, ado_pr_id, and reviewer_gid.
data/projects.json.example: Example project configuration.
Write all code in Python.
Keep every function at or below a cognitive complexity of 15. This is a design guideline for how you write code, separate from Ruff's enforced cyclomatic complexity limit of 10 below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 lines

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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.

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ado-asana-sync copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository danstis/ado-asana-sync (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,837 tokens to every session, about $0.0073 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 2026-10-02.

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