llm_engineering is a course repository containing projects and materials for learning how to build applications with large language models over eight weeks. Students and developers use it as a progressively structured path to LLM engineering. The catalogue instruction supports working through this course repository.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to ed-donner/llm_engineering. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ed-donner/llm_engineering/main/community-contributions/protocol_summarizer_webapp/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ed-donner/llm_engineeringWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ed-donner/llm_engineering/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ed-donner/llm_engineering/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ed-donner/llm_engineering/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ed-donner/llm_engineering/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ed-donner/llm_engineering/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00090 | $0.00090 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00036 | $0.00036 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00018 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00009 |
Grade C, and why
llm_engineering copilot-instructions.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.
Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection
Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.
<!-- Use this file to provide workspace-specific custom instructions to Copilot. For more details, visit https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/copilot-customization#_use-a-githubcopilotinstructionsmd-file --> What it actually says
This is a Streamlit web application for clinical trial protocol summarization. Use Streamlit best practices for UI and Python for backend logic. Integrate with ClinicalTrials.gov v2 API for study search and OpenAI for summarization.
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 · 4 lines · 90 tokens per session scan C 4e05bb944324
llm_engineering copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ed-donner/llm_engineering (7,890 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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