What is swarm-command copilot-instructions.md?

A set of instructions for Swarm Command, a GitHub Copilot CLI skill that coordinates groups of AI agents to work together and check their results.

Use it when developing or maintaining Swarm Command, especially when changing its agent roles, templates, protocols, configuration, or documentation.

It gives the agents shared rules for coordination, data formats, safety limits, and pull requests, reducing inconsistent or unsafe changes.

How DUBSOpenHub/swarm-command configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to DUBSOpenHub/swarm-command. 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/DUBSOpenHub/swarm-command/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DUBSOpenHub/swarm-command

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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README.md

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Per session 650 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 650 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00650	$0.00650
Opus 5.5	$0.00260	$0.00260
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00130	$0.00130
Haiku 4.5	$0.00065	$0.00065

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0631f00a8f9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swarm-command 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 · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Instructions — Swarm Command

This repository contains Swarm Command, a GitHub Copilot CLI skill that orchestrates multi-model agent swarms with consensus scoring and shadow validation.

File map

File/Dir	Purpose
`skills/swarm-command/SKILL.md`	Nexus orchestrator prompt (the brain)
`agents/swarm-command.agent.md`	Standalone agent version
`templates/*.md`	Prompt templates (Commander, Worker, Reviewer, Squad Lead)
`protocols/*.md`	Protocol invariants (Depth Guard, Circuit Breaker, Context Capsule)
`config.yml`	Tunables (models, thresholds, timeouts, scaling)
`catalog.yml`	Skill metadata + file references
`docs/*.md`	Architecture, consensus, shadow scoring, scaling docs

Non-negotiables

Depth Guard is sacred. Workers are ALWAYS leaf nodes (explore/task). They MUST NOT use the task tool. Three enforcement layers: prompt-level, contract-level, config-level.
Config is the source of truth. Never hardcode model names, thresholds, or tunables inside prompts.
All outputs are strict JSON. Every layer boundary uses schema-validated JSON. No prose parsing.
Just a skill. Do not add runtime code, package managers, telemetry, dashboards, or plugin systems.
Parent controls spawning. The parent computes can_launch for every child. The child never decides for itself.
Sealed criteria are hidden. Shadow scoring uses the Shadow Score Spec sealed-envelope protocol. Sealed acceptance criteria are generated before commanders execute and must never appear in any agent prompt. Only the Nexus sees them during Phase 6 validation.
Context compresses monotonically. 128K → 2K → 512 → 128 tokens. File scope narrows at every layer.

Prohibited actions

Spawning general-purpose agents at the worker level (depth 2+ for SS-50/SS-100, depth 3+ for SS-250)
Setting can_launch = true for Workers and Reviewers is prohibited. Squad Leads at depth 2 (SS-250 only) MAY have can_launch=true (they spawn leaf workers only). At SS-50/SS-100, commanders spawn workers directly at depth 2.
Passing full context (128K) to workers — compress to 128 tokens
Exposing shadow scoring criteria to workers or reviewers
Hardcoding model names in prompt templates (use placeholders)

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 650 tokens per session scan A 0631f00a8f9c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

swarm-command copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository DUBSOpenHub/swarm-command (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 650 tokens to every session, about $0.0026 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.

Building agents

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swarm-command: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot