402-mcp copilot-instructions.md

402-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from forgesworn/402-mcp. It costs 555 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for GitHub Copilot when it works on the 402-mcp project, a server for agents that use payment-protected APIs. They define the project’s commands, structure, conventions, and security patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide Copilot through building, testing, and type-checking the code, keeping tests in the expected location, and following the project’s handler, spending, validation, and request-routing patterns.
Why use it?
They give Copilot the project context needed to make compatible changes and avoid unsafe handling of payments or network requests.

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/forgesworn/402-mcp/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/forgesworn/402-mcp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00555 $0.00555
Opus 5 $0.00278 $0.00278
Sonnet 5 $0.00111 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00056 $0.00056

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9da7b5f5ec65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

402-mcp 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Instructions — 402-mcp

L402 + x402 client MCP server. AI agents discover, pay for, and consume any payment-gated API autonomously.

Commands

  • npm run build — compile TypeScript to build/
  • npm test — run all tests (vitest)
  • npm run typecheck — type-check without emitting

Conventions

  • British English — colour, initialise, behaviour, licence
  • ESM-only"type": "module", target ES2022, module Node16
  • Tool pattern — each tool file exports a handle* function (testable with injected deps) and a register*Tool function (MCP wiring)
  • Tests live in tests/, not co-located with source. Each handler's handle* function is tested directly with mock deps using vi.fn()
  • Commit messagestype: description format (feat:, fix:, docs:, chore:, refactor:). No Co-Authored-By lines.

Key Patterns

  • Atomic spend tracking — always use spendTracker.tryRecord(sats, limit), never split wouldExceed() + record() (TOCTOU race)
  • Preimage validation — validate hex format before storing. Preimages are sent raw in Authorization: L402 {macaroon}:{preimage} headers
  • SSRF guard — all outbound HTTP goes through the SSRF guard. Money-mutating POSTs pass { retries: 0 } to disable retry
  • cashu-ts v2getDecodedToken() returns { mint, proofs, unit } at top level. There is NO .token array
  • nostr-tools NIP-44 — use getConversationKey(privkey, pubkey) then encrypt(plaintext, conversationKey). Do NOT use NIP-04

Structure

  • src/index.ts — entry point: config, wiring, transport setup
  • src/config.ts — environment variable parsing with validation
  • src/tools/ — one file per MCP tool (handler + registration)
  • src/wallet/ — payment implementations (NWC, Cashu, human-in-the-loop)
  • src/store/ — persistent JSON stores (credentials, Cashu tokens)
  • src/l402/ — L402 protocol utilities (parse, detect, cache, bolt11)
  • src/fetch/ — resilient fetch: SSRF guard, timeout, retry, transport selection
  • tests/ — mirrors src/ structure

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 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. 2d ago First seen · 37 lines · 555 tokens per session scan A 9da7b5f5ec65

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402-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository forgesworn/402-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 555 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 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.