sourceright: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

sourceright copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from edithatogo/sourceright. It costs 519 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Coding instructions for Sourceright, a project that manages academic references, source evidence, and review work. They define which files are authoritative and how claims, citations, provenance, and write operations must be handled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when editing bibliographic data, recording provider evidence, managing review queues, handling legal citations, or implementing audited read-only and write-capable tools.
Why use it?
They prevent evidence from silently replacing canonical references and discourage agents from presenting source tracking as proof that a claim is true.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

This is edithatogo/sourceright's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on sourceright 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 sourceright configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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When invoked 519 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.
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Sonnet 5.5 $0.00104 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00052 $0.00052

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b1ee9c9e0d88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sourceright 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 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/copilot-instructions.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sourceright Copilot Instructions

Use the current repository as the source of truth. Do not bulk-apply material from .codex-plan/, do not overwrite existing Rust modules, and do not split the crate into a workspace unless an issue explicitly asks for that after an audit.

Preserve the project boundaries:

  • references.csl.json is canonical clean bibliographic data.
  • references.verification.json stores provider evidence, provenance, confidence, conflicts, and review state.
  • review-queue.jsonl is derived operational review work.
  • Provider data must not silently overwrite canonical CSL.
  • Legal citations remain separate from academic CSL.
  • Claim/source/provenance work must not assert claim truth.
  • MCP write tools need stable read-only contracts, schemas, audit logs, and dry-run semantics before they write.

Prefer small, reviewable pull requests. For dependency or security work, keep changes narrowly scoped to the vulnerable dependency, pinned action, pinned image, workflow permission, or policy surface being remediated.

Use these checks when relevant:

cargo fmt --check
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo test
cargo check --locked
cargo run --bin sourceright -- bench

For docs-site changes, also run:

cd docs-site
npm ci
npm run build

When touching GitHub Actions, keep permissions least-privilege, keep actions pinned by full commit SHA, and avoid scheduled or notification-heavy workflows unless the issue explicitly requests them.

Conductor Track Workflow

Each implementation slice should reference a Conductor track by its ID (e.g., 64-github-side-governance-additions). Before editing files under a track's owned paths, run $conductor-review (if available) or manually verify:

  • The track spec and test matrix are up to date.
  • Changes stay within declared owned paths.
  • Evidence level in conductor/evidence-ledger.json accurately reflects what was done.

Forbidden Claims

Sourceright code, docs, and PR metadata must never assert:

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 69 lines · 519 tokens per session scan A b1ee9c9e0d88

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sourceright copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository edithatogo/sourceright (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 519 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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.

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