ai-workshop: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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ai-workshop genailab.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from dotnet-presentations/ai-workshop. It costs 348 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for maintaining the GenAiLab and AI Web Chat workshop progression. It covers generated .NET projects, Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI, Qdrant and deployment documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing the workshop's GenAiLab template, production search setup, Azure services, package versions or Parts 4, 10 and 11 documentation.
Why use it?
It helps keep workshop parts, package choices, templates, infrastructure guidance and README instructions consistent. It also prevents credentials and deployment state from being added to the project.

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/instructions/genailab.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dotnet-presentations/ai-workshop

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Per session 348 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 348 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 $0.00348 $0.00348
Opus 5.5 $0.00139 $0.00139
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00070 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00035 $0.00035

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 257c6950ba23, 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 genailab.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.

.github/instructions/genailab.instructions.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

GenAiLab progression

  • Treat Parts 4, 10, and 11 as one app progression. Part 4 scaffolds GenAiLab, Part 10 changes its production service choices, and the Part 11 snapshot is the deployment-ready result.
  • Read docs/instructor/DEPENDENCY_POLICY.md before changing package versions in this progression. Preserve its security overrides and coordinated Aspire set.
  • Preserve the exact Part 4 scaffold command unless intentionally updating the entire progression. Its provider, vector-store, Aspire, name, and output options determine what later instructions can assume.
  • The AppHost deliberately uses the existing Azure OpenAI connection instead of provisioning a new account. Preserve that behavior and the corresponding attendee step across Parts 4 and 11.
  • Keep Azure AI Search as the recommended Part 10/11 production path and Qdrant as the documented fallback unless the workshop's provider strategy changes.
  • When template output, package requirements, or infrastructure behavior changes, verify the current template and update the relevant READMEs, Part 11 snapshot, and docs/instructor/AICHATWEB_TEMPLATE_NOTES.md together.
  • Do not commit azure.yaml or .azure/; deployment initialization generates them at runtime.
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 · 26 lines · 348 tokens per session scan A 257c6950ba23

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ai-workshop genailab.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dotnet-presentations/ai-workshop (62 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 348 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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 2026-09-08.

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