Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to dev-lou/PixelPilot. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dev-lou/PixelPilot/main/vscode/.github/instructions/reasoning.instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev-lou/PixelPilotWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dev-lou/pixelpilot/reasoning)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dev-lou/pixelpilot/reasoning"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dev-lou/pixelpilot/reasoning/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dev-lou/pixelpilot/reasoning"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dev-lou/pixelpilot/reasoning.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.02073 | $0.02073 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00829 | $0.00829 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00415 | $0.00415 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00207 | $0.00207 |
Grade A, and why
PixelPilot reasoning.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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Reasoning — Meta-Skill 2026
Structured thinking protocol: restate → constrain → diverge → evaluate → propose → review. Never write a line of code until all six steps are complete.
WHY THIS EXISTS
AI models are pattern-matchers. Without a forcing function they will:
- Jump to the most common solution (which may be wrong for this context)
- Miss implicit constraints (auth model, existing tech debt, team conventions)
- Generate confident but incorrect code in unfamiliar domains
- Fail to surface the ambiguity that a human expert would immediately flag
This skill installs that forcing function.
THE SIX-STEP REASONING WORKFLOW
Run every step in order. Do not skip. Do not merge steps.
STEP 1 — RESTATE THE GOAL
Paraphrase the request in your own words. Be specific. Include:
- What the user wants to achieve (outcome, not activity)
- Who is the end user or beneficiary
- What success looks like (measurable if possible)
- What is explicitly out of scope (if stated)
Example restatement:
"The user wants a multi-step checkout form for an e-commerce site (Premium Modern
design language). Success = user can complete purchase in < 90 s on mobile.
Out of scope: payment processing logic — only the UI layer."
If the restatement changes what the user seemed to ask for, stop and confirm before continuing.
STEP 2 — LIST ALL CONSTRAINTS
Enumerate every constraint, grouped by category. Ask clarifying questions for anything marked [?].
## Constraints
### Technical
- Framework: Next.js 14 App Router [confirmed / ?]
- Styling: Tailwind v4 + CSS custom properties [confirmed / ?]
- Browser support: modern evergreen + Safari 16+ [?]
- Must work without JS? (progressive enhancement) [?]
### Design System
- Design language: Premium Modern [confirmed / ?]
- Tokens already defined in tokens.css? [confirmed / ?]
- Dark mode required? [confirmed — law #6]
### Business / Product
- Must ship by: [?]
- Analytics / tracking requirements? [?]
- Legal / compliance (GDPR, WCAG, HIPAA)? [?]
### Team
- Will other devs maintain this? Skill level? [?]
- Existing component library to reuse? [?]
- PR / code review process affects scope? [?]
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 · 263 lines · 2,073 tokens per session scan A 999a3b33de3f
PixelPilot reasoning.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dev-lou/PixelPilot (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,073 tokens to every session, about $0.0083 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.
PixelPilot reasoning.instructions.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PixelPilot reasoning.instructions.mddev-lou/PixelPilot | Instructions file | 2 | 7mo ago | MIT | A | 2,073 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
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| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |