Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to DFKHelper/token-goat. 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/DFKHelper/token-goat/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DFKHelper/token-goatWrote 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/dfkhelper/token-goat/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dfkhelper/token-goat/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dfkhelper/token-goat/copilot-instructions/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/dfkhelper/token-goat/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dfkhelper/token-goat/copilot-instructions.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 | $0.01900 | $0.01900 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00760 | $0.00760 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00380 | $0.00380 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00190 | $0.00190 |
Grade A, and why
token-goat 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 4d 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.
The source is not reproduced here
A licence we could not identify
The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.
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.
- 4d ago Changed · +1 lines · -6 tokens per session 031c4f3699c9
- 10d ago Changed · +2 lines · -460 tokens per session aa8d66def577
- 13d ago Changed · +44 tokens per session 7f004d5a6fce
- 24d ago Changed · +37 lines · +1,028 tokens per session ff438c23bb2b
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +25 tokens per session 17d870fe0552
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +149 tokens per session 8c2069d3b61e
- 1mo ago Changed · +32 tokens per session 27759b037705
- 1mo ago First seen · 36 lines · 1,088 tokens per session scan A e4cbc9691617
token-goat copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository DFKHelper/token-goat (144 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 1,900 tokens to every session, about $0.0076 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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