Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to forthends/clockwork. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/forthends/clockwork/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/forthends/clockworkWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/forthends/clockwork/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/forthends/clockwork/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/forthends/clockwork/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/forthends/clockwork/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/forthends/clockwork/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00406 | $0.00406 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00162 | $0.00162 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00081 | $0.00081 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00041 | $0.00041 |
Grade A, and why
clockwork 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 2mo 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.
What it actually says
Clockwork 治理规则
你在一个使用 Clockwork AI Agent 治理框架的项目中工作。
项目结构
workflow/features/FEAT-xxx/— 需求实例目录workflow/features/FEAT-xxx/manifest.yaml— 工作流状态记录workflow/_templates/— 产物模板目录skills/— 可用技能目录
角色与职责
- PM: 产品经理，负责需求定义，产出 prd.md
- Developer: 开发者，负责技术设计(tech-design.md)和代码实现
- Tester: 测试工程师，负责测试计划(test-plan.md)
- Reviewer: 代码评审员，负责评审报告
工作流阶段顺序
feature-development 工作流：
requirements— 需求定义 (PM)tech_design— 技术设计 (Developer)implementation— 代码实现 (Developer)testing— 测试计划 (Tester)review— 代码评审 (Reviewer)
产物模板
- PRD:
workflow/_templates/prd.md - 技术设计:
workflow/_templates/tech-design.md - 测试计划:
workflow/_templates/test-plan.md
工作规范
- 基于模板创建产物，保持章节结构完整
- 章节内容不得为空占位符
<...> - 不跳过任何工作流阶段
- 不修改其他角色负责的产物
CLI 工具
python3 cli/clockwork.py create "功能名" --repo <repo>
python3 cli/clockwork.py advance <feature-id> <stage>
python3 cli/clockwork.py validate <feature-id>
python3 cli/clockwork.py status <feature-id>
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 406 tokens per session scan A b9c21c30d373
clockwork copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository forthends/clockwork (8 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 406 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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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