ai-workshop: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

ai-workshop copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from dotnet-presentations/ai-workshop. It costs 363 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for a .NET AI workshop repository: a one-day teaching project made of self-contained lessons and working code examples using .NET 10 and Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft's platform for building generative-AI applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing, building, or testing this specific .NET AI workshop and its lessons, examples, or deployment material.
Why use it?
It keeps lesson folders, code snapshots, naming, builds, and tests consistent across the workshop. That makes the teaching materials easier to follow and verify from setup through deployment.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dotnet-presentations/ai-workshop. 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/dotnet-presentations/ai-workshop/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dotnet-presentations/ai-workshop

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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When invoked 363 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.
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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 $0.00363 $0.00363
Opus 5.5 $0.00145 $0.00145
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00073 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00036 $0.00036

Measured 2mo ago against content hash e825e6bb6937, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-workshop 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 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

.NET AI Workshop

Teaching repository for a one-day, 11-part .NET AI workshop. The active workshop content is in zero-padded Part NN - <Name>/ folders; prose and headings use the unpadded "Part N" form. Some parts deliberately continue work from earlier parts.

Everything targets .NET 10 and uses Microsoft Foundry (Azure OpenAI) as the default provider.

Repository invariants

  • Treat the root README.md as the workshop catalog and pacing authority.
  • Keep attendee instructions and their committed code snapshots in sync.
  • Scaffold projects with dotnet new; do not hand-author project files that the workshop teaches attendees to generate.
  • Never commit secrets or generated output such as bin/, obj/, .vs/, or .azure/.
  • Preserve a zero-warning build. Use .github/workflows/dotnet-build.yml as the authority for the current build matrix and SDK version.
  • Use .github/workflows/markdownlint.yml and .github/workflows/link-check.yml as the authorities for documentation validation.

Working in this repository

  • Read the nearest part README before changing a lab or snapshot.
  • Prefer plain, direct, attendee-facing prose. Keep time estimates and the root schedule aligned when a part's length changes.
  • Follow the path-specific instructions in .github/instructions/ for workshop prose, snapshot code, and the shared GenAiLab progression.
  • Use the workshop-testing skill for attendee-style walkthroughs, snapshot reconciliation, or workshop test reports.
  • Consult docs/instructor/ for volatile template behavior and instructor-only implementation context instead of duplicating those details here.
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. 2mo ago Changed · -34 lines · -1,349 tokens per session e825e6bb6937
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 68 lines · 1,712 tokens per session scan A 4dd0d36d649d

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ai-workshop copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dotnet-presentations/ai-workshop (62 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 363 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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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