Alex_Skill_Mall: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/mall-maintenance-rules.instructions.md

Alex_Skill_Mall mall-maintenance-rules.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. It costs 1,288 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of always-on routing rules for maintaining the Plugin Mall, a catalogue of coding-agent add-ons and their source stores.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps route scans, scoring, publishing, plugin imports, contributor submissions, catalogue maintenance, source-store evaluation, and staleness checks.
Why use it?
It removes uncertainty about which maintenance process applies to a task. Different work, such as importing a plugin, reviewing a contribution, or checking a store, is sent to the appropriate workflow.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on Alex_Skill_Mall 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 Alex_Skill_Mall configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall

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Per session 1,288 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,288 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01288 $0.01288
Opus 5 $0.00644 $0.00644
Sonnet 5 $0.00258 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00129 $0.00129

Measured 9d ago against content hash bb027e57291e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Alex_Skill_Mall mall-maintenance-rules.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 9d 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/instructions/mall-maintenance-rules.instructions.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mall Maintenance Rules

The Plugin Mall is self-curating. This always-on rule routes any Mall-internal work to the right skill at the right moment.

Always-on rationale: Mall operations can begin from scripts, workflow files, plugin payloads, source-registry changes, or contributor PRs. The ownership and approval boundary must be available before any of those paths writes state.

Routing Table

Trigger Fire skill
Pipeline operations (scan / score / render / publish) mall-self-curation
Import or refresh a curated plugin npm run vendor per mall-self-curation § Canonical operator commands
Contributor prepares a plugin PR npm run submit:prepare, then npm run submit:validate
Curated plugin PR needs review Automated checks plus @fabioc-aloha CODEOWNER approval; never auto-merge
First-party catalog/README maintenance npm run maintain -- --curated
Add / remove a source store in supported-stores.json source-inventory
Evaluate a candidate store before adding it to the registry store-evaluation
Source store appears stale (no upstream activity, broken remote, etc.) staleness-discipline
Catalog refresh PR (catalog-refresh/YYYY-MM-DD) needs review mall-self-curation § Workflow + cadence
New plugin shape (frontmatter convention) breaks the scan mall-self-curation § Anti-Patterns + normalize-frontmatter.cjs
Trust score formula tuning mall-self-curation § Trust scoring formula
Substantive change worth consolidating meditation
Stale brain file (lastReviewed expired) currency-audit
Curated plugin under plugins/<category>/<name>/ needs editorial change Out of automation scope — editorial changes ship via PR review, not via the workflow
Downstream consumer reports a broken plugin reference Out of automation scope — fix the consumer reference first; the Mall does not own consumer policy

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 9d ago First seen · 68 lines · 1,288 tokens per session scan A bb027e57291e

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Alex_Skill_Mall mall-maintenance-rules.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,288 tokens to every session, about $0.0064 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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