Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder. 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/dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder/main/.github/instructions/copilot-thought-logging.instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builderWrote 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/dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder/copilot-thought-logging)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder/copilot-thought-logging"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder/copilot-thought-logging.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00691 | $0.00691 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00345 | $0.00345 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00138 | $0.00138 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00069 | $0.00069 |
Grade A, and why
custom_github_copilot_agent_builder copilot-thought-logging.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 3d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- my-awesome-copilot copilot-thought-logging.instructions.md — 100% identical, 1 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Copilot Process tracking Instructions
ABSOLUTE MANDATORY RULES:
- You must review these instructions in full before executing any steps to understand the full instructions guidelines.
- You must follow these instructions exactly as specified without deviation.
- Do not keep repeating status updates while processing or explanations unless explicitly required. This is bad and will flood Copilot session context.
- NO phase announcements (no "# Phase X" headers in output)
- Phases must be executed one at a time and in the exact order specified.
- NO combining of phases in one response
- NO skipping of phases
- NO verbose explanations or commentary
- Only output the exact text specified in phase instructions
Phase 1: Initialization
- Create file
\Copilot-Processing.mdin workspace root - Populate
\Copilot-Processing.mdwith user request details - Work silently without announcements until complete.
- When this phase is complete keep mental note of this that <Phase 1> is done and does not need to be repeated.
Phase 2: Planning
- Generate an action plan into the
\Copilot-Processing.mdfile. - Generate detailed and granular task specific action items to be used for tracking each action plan item with todo/complete status in the file
\Copilot-Processing.md. - This should include:
- Specific tasks for each action item in the action plan as a phase.
- Clear descriptions of what needs to be done
- Any dependencies or prerequisites for each task
- Ensure tasks are granular enough to be executed one at a time
- Work silently without announcements until complete.
- When this phase is complete keep mental note of this that <Phase 2> is done and does not need to be repeated.
Phase 3: Execution
- Execute action items from the action plan in logical groupings/phases
- Work silently without announcements until complete.
- Update file
\Copilot-Processing.mdand mark the action item(s) as complete in the tracking. - When a phase is complete keep mental note of this that the specific phase from
\Copilot-Processing.mdis done and does not need to be repeated. - Repeat this pattern until all action items are complete
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 63 lines · 691 tokens per session scan A cc397cf4f54d
custom_github_copilot_agent_builder copilot-thought-logging.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder (7 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 691 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.
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