Tel-Agent: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

Tel-Agent copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Dpro-at/Tel-Agent. It costs 86 tokens per session, scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A set of instructions for coding agents working on the Tel-Agent project. It tells the agent which project guidance files to read and which document takes priority when rules conflict.

In plain words
What is it for?
Working in the Tel-Agent repository, especially when checking project instructions or resolving conflicts between documentation and the specification.
Why use it?
It keeps different coding agents aligned with the same project rules and prevents them from following outdated or lower-priority guidance.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is Dpro-at/Tel-Agent's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on Tel-Agent 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 Tel-Agent configures →

About the project

Tel-Agent is a self-hosted gateway that connects phone lines to AI agents, routing incoming calls to people, blocking them, or handing them to an agent that can speak and use tools in real time. It is for organizations that want an AI phone assistant using their own hardware, network, credentials, and routing rules, with support for call recording, transcription, and additional messaging channels. The catalogue rules, instructions, and skills support operating or configuring Tel-Agent.

Dpro-at/Tel-Agent · 1,183 stars · on GitHub · tel-agent.com

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Dpro-at/Tel-Agent. 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/Dpro-at/Tel-Agent/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dpro-at/Tel-Agent

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 86 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 86 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 unknown 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 $0.00086 $0.00086
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00034
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00017
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00009

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d074fc3a7a8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Tel-Agent 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 · 7 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 First seen · 7 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A d074fc3a7a8e

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Tel-Agent copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Dpro-at/Tel-Agent (1,183 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session, about $0.0003 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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