Demand-Discovery-Skill: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

Demand-Discovery-Skill copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Ddhjx-code/Demand-Discovery-Skill. It costs 260 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for researching small but real customer needs across several online sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find niche product ideas by checking discussions, reviews, feature requests, alternatives, and search interest, then recording scored results.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a defined research process, data sources, scoring method, and report format instead of leaving the investigation open-ended.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is Ddhjx-code/Demand-Discovery-Skill's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on Demand-Discovery-Skill 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 Demand-Discovery-Skill configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Ddhjx-code/Demand-Discovery-Skill. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ddhjx-code/Demand-Discovery-Skill

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Grade A, and why

Demand-Discovery-Skill 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Demand Discovery Skill

This project is an automated niche demand discovery tool. It systematically finds long-tail demands — too small for companies but real enough for indie developers to build solutions.

When the user asks for demand discovery research:

  1. Read SKILL.md for the complete 9-stage workflow
  2. Read references/niche-rotation.md for the 26-category rotation with keywords
  3. Read references/estimation-methodology.md for scoring formulas

Data Sources (7)

Gather data from these sources using web search:

  • Reddit — Pain points in category-relevant subreddits
  • G2 — Competitor low-star reviews
  • Product Hunt — Trending alternatives
  • GitHub Issues — Feature requests with high reaction counts (use gh CLI)
  • Hacker News — Developer discussions (hn.algolia.com API)
  • AlternativeTo — Software alternatives and gaps
  • Google Trends — Search volume validation

Output Format

Reports go to output/reports/YYYY-MM-DD-<category>.md (relative to this skill's directory).

Each demand is scored 0-100 (weighted composite from 7 sources) with a feasibility rating 1-5.

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 · 27 lines · 260 tokens per session scan A dd4bd07f981e

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Demand-Discovery-Skill copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Ddhjx-code/Demand-Discovery-Skill (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 260 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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