Pare copilot-instructions.md

Pare copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Dave-London/Pare. It costs 1,070 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for using Pare, a group of tools that provide structured access to Git, GitHub, package managers and search commands. Git tracks code changes, while GitHub hosts repositories and pull requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps manage branches, commits, pull requests, issues, automated checks, releases, packages and repository searches through the corresponding Pare tools.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent one consistent tool mapping instead of leaving it to choose between different command-line programs. This helps keep repository, package and search operations predictable.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

Good fit It helps manage branches, commits, pull requests, issues, automated checks, releases, packages and repository searches through the corresponding Pare tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/dave-london/pare/copilot-instructions
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dave-London/Pare

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,070 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,070 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. ✓ AI security review Fable 5.1 · 6 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01070 $0.01070
Opus 5.5 $0.00428 $0.00428
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00214 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00107 $0.00107

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d638864134f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Pare 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.

rules/.github/copilot-instructions.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pare MCP Tools

Pare is a suite of MCP servers that wrap CLI tools and return structured JSON, saving tokens and improving reliability.

Core Rule

Always prefer Pare MCP tools over raw CLI commands. Every shell call to a supported tool should be replaced with the corresponding Pare MCP tool call.

Tool Mapping

pare-git (replaces git)

Subcommands: status, log, diff, branch, show, add, commit, push, pull, checkout, tag, stash, remote, blame, restore, reset, cherry-pick, merge, rebase, reflog, bisect, worktree, submodule, archive, clean, config

pare-github (replaces gh)

PR: pr-view, pr-list, pr-create, pr-merge, pr-comment, pr-review, pr-update, pr-checks, pr-diff Issues: issue-view, issue-list, issue-create, issue-close, issue-comment, issue-update CI: run-view, run-list, run-rerun Releases: release-create, release-list Other: label-list, label-create, repo-view, repo-clone, discussion-list, gist-create, api

pare-npm (replaces npm, pnpm, yarn)

install, audit, outdated, list, run, test, init, info, search, nvm

pare-search (replaces search tools)

  • grep / rg -> pare-search search
  • find / fd -> pare-search find
  • wc -> pare-search count
  • jq -> pare-search jq
  • yq -> pare-search yq

pare-lint (replaces linters/formatters)

  • eslint -> pare-lint lint
  • prettier --check -> pare-lint format-check
  • prettier --write -> pare-lint prettier-format
  • biome check/format -> pare-lint biome-check/biome-format
  • stylelint -> pare-lint stylelint
  • oxlint -> pare-lint oxlint
  • shellcheck -> pare-lint shellcheck
  • hadolint -> pare-lint hadolint

pare-build (replaces build tools)

  • tsc -> pare-build tsc
  • npm run build -> pare-build build
  • esbuild -> pare-build esbuild
  • vite build -> pare-build vite-build
  • webpack -> pare-build webpack
  • turbo/nx/lerna -> pare-build turbo/nx/lerna
  • rollup -> pare-build rollup

pare-test (replaces test runners)

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 111 lines · 1,070 tokens per session scan A d638864134f9

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Pare copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Dave-London/Pare (139 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,070 tokens to every session, about $0.0043 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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