dex copilot-instructions.md

Short operating instructions for dex, an analytics engineering toolkit, that tell agents to run its command-line engine and read the JSON result it returns. JSON is a structured text format for exchanging data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to drive dex commands, inspect their results, and make controlled changes to dbt projects and related analytics work.
Why use it?
They keep agents from duplicating the engine’s logic and enforce safeguards around data access, repository changes, spending, credentials, and personal information.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/exmergo/dex/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/exmergo/dex

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 157 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 157 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 $0.00157 $0.00157
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.00078
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00016

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0895c4f7afac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dex 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 2d 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 · 12 lines

What it actually says

dex: drive the engine via its command contract

Follow AGENTS.md at the repository root.

In short: dex's logic lives in the exmergo-dex-core engine. Drive it by running uv run python -m exmergo_dex_core <subcommand>, read the single JSON envelope it prints, and decide the next step. Never re-implement the engine in instructions. The guardrails (read-only against data, writes confined to the repo as diffs, dev-target-only builds, cost surfaced before spend, no credentials or raw rows in context, PII flagged not surfaced) are enforced in the engine. See AGENTS.md for the full command surface and envelope spec.

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. 2d ago First seen · 12 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A 0895c4f7afac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dex copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository exmergo/dex (24 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 157 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.