fusion-skills: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

fusion-skills copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from equinor/fusion-skills. It costs 634 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for GitHub Copilot, including where to put general and path-specific guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Configuring Copilot behavior across a repository, for specific paths such as skills or scripts, and for pull-request work.
Why use it?
They keep Copilot instructions short, relevant to the files being edited, and within the repository's size rules.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is equinor/fusion-skills's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on fusion-skills 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 fusion-skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 634 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 634 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00634 $0.00634
Opus 5 $0.00317 $0.00317
Sonnet 5 $0.00127 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00063 $0.00063

Measured 5d ago against content hash 488be44e0be9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fusion-skills 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 5d 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 · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Instructions

Repository-wide guidance for Copilot in this repository.

Scope

  • Keep this file under 100 lines and applicable to all repository contexts.
  • Put detailed, domain-specific rules in .github/instructions/*.instructions.md.

Path-specific instructions

Path Instructions file
skills/** .github/instructions/skills-authoring.instructions.md
skills/**/scripts/** .github/instructions/skills-scripts-safety.instructions.md
scripts/** .github/instructions/scripts-code-rules.instructions.md
Pull request prep/updates .github/instructions/pr-workflow.instructions.md

Skill discovery defaults

  • For local skill discovery in this repository, search skills/ first.
  • Include skills/ and skills/.experimental/ in local .agents/skills lookup paths for this workspace.

SKILL.md size limits

  • SKILL.md files must stay under 500 lines (CI error threshold).
  • SKILL.md files above 300 lines trigger a CI warning — consider moving content to references/.
  • See contribute/02-skill-structure-and-content.md for the cross-platform size rationale and progressive disclosure guidance.

SKILL.md prose style

Write skill prose for minimal token cost. Every token in SKILL.md is loaded into context on activation.

  • Drop articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically/simply), and hedging
  • Use fragments: "Run tests before commit" not "You should always run tests before committing"
  • Short synonyms: "fix" not "implement a solution for", "use" not "utilize"
  • State actions directly — drop "you should", "remember to", "make sure to"
  • Merge redundant bullets; keep one example when multiple show the same pattern
  • In SKILL.md files, never modify code blocks, inline code, paths, URLs, or technical terms
  • To compress any skills/**/*.md file, use the caveman-compress skill (.agents/skills/caveman-compress): /caveman:compress skills/<name>/SKILL.md

Maintainer docs

  • For maintainer workflow and policy context, use contribute/README.md and the topic files in contribute/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 5d ago First seen · 61 lines · 634 tokens per session scan A 488be44e0be9

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fusion-skills copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository equinor/fusion-skills (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 634 tokens to every session, about $0.0032 per session on Opus 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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