repotector: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

repotector copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from dir-ai/repotector. It costs 216 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Copilot, an AI coding assistant, in a guarded repository managed by Repotector.

In plain words
What is it for?
Using repository maps, checking which files an edit may affect, finding existing code, running quality checks, and registering work with Repotector.
Why use it?
They give the assistant a required order for checking the repository, changing code, validating work, and handing over a summary.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is dir-ai/repotector's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on repotector 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 repotector configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dir-ai/repotector/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dir-ai/repotector

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 216 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 216 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.
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 $0.00216 $0.00216
Opus 5.5 $0.00086 $0.00086
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00022

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9bc424343be5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repotector 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Copilot instructions

⬡ Repotector — this repo is guarded (REPOTECTOR/2)

Before you touch anything:

  1. handshake({ who }) on the repotector MCP server — you are logged in and handed the map. No deep tool answers first.
  2. city_map() — intent, danger list, conventions, built-vs-missing. Read it before reading code.
  3. New code → find_existing(intent). Editing → blast_radius(files). Finishing → quality_gates() then depart({ summary }).

Rules: reuse before rebuilding · protect dependents · follow the repo canon · keep files small · your depart summary becomes the next agent’s briefing. No server connected? run npx repotector mcp. A repo with no .repotector/? propose npx repotector init.

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 · 13 lines · 216 tokens per session scan A 9bc424343be5

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repotector copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dir-ai/repotector (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 216 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 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.

Related

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