Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to franklesniak/copilot-repo-template. 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/franklesniak/copilot-repo-template/main/.github/instructions/powershell.instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklesniak/copilot-repo-templateWrote 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/franklesniak/copilot-repo-template/powershell)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/franklesniak/copilot-repo-template/powershell"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/franklesniak/copilot-repo-template/powershell/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/franklesniak/copilot-repo-template/powershell"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/franklesniak/copilot-repo-template/powershell.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 | $0.36363 | $0.36363 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.14545 | $0.14545 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.07273 | $0.07273 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.03636 | $0.03636 |
Grade A, and why
copilot-repo-template powershell.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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 2,826 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
PowerShell Writing Style
Version: 2.23.20260726.0
Metadata
- Status: Active
- Owner: Repository Maintainers
- Last Updated: 2026-07-26
- Scope: PowerShell coding standards for all
.ps1files in this repository — style, formatting, naming, error handling, documentation, and compatibility patterns for both legacy (v1.0) and modern (v2.0+) codebases.
Applicability and Portability
- This guide is self-contained and intended for standalone use or vendoring into another repository.
- Apply each requirement according to its scope tag and any explicit conditions.
- Requirements tied to an optional toolchain, file type, or repository feature apply when the adopting project uses or intentionally adopts that surface.
- Additional repository-wide instructions in the adopting repository continue to apply; this guide creates no exception to them.
- Resolve actual conflicts through the adopting repository's documented precedence rules.
Keywords
Per RFC 2119: MUST / SHALL / REQUIRED = absolute requirement; MUST NOT / SHALL NOT = absolute prohibition; SHOULD / RECOMMENDED = strong recommendation (deviations require justification); SHOULD NOT / NOT RECOMMENDED = strong discouragement; MAY / OPTIONAL = truly optional.
Quick Reference Checklist
Scope tags: [All] = all PowerShell versions, [Modern] = PowerShell v2.0+ (requires features not available in v1.0), [v1.0] = backward compatible with Windows PowerShell v1.0. Each item links to its detailed section.
Code Layout and Formatting (Quick Reference)
- [All] Code MUST use 4 spaces for indentation, never tabs → Indentation Rules
- [All] Opening braces MUST be placed on same line (OTBS) → Brace Placement (OTBS)
- [All]
catch,finally,elseMUST be on same line as closing brace → Exception: catch, finally, and else Keywords - [All] Code MUST use single space around operators, no extra alignment → Operator Spacing and Alignment
- [All] Operators MUST NOT be vertically aligned across multiple lines → Operator Spacing and Alignment
- [All] Multi-line method parameters MUST have extra indentation → Multi-line Method Indentation
- [All] Blank lines SHOULD be used sparingly: two around functions, one within → Blank Line Usage
- [All] Blank lines MUST NOT contain any whitespace (spaces or tabs) → Blank Line Usage
- [All] Lines MUST NOT end with trailing whitespace → Trailing Whitespace
- [All] Variables in strings SHOULD be delimited with
${}or-foperator → Variable Delimiting in Strings - [All] Source
.ps1files MUST be UTF-8 without BOM by default; see File Encoding for the Windows PowerShell/non-ASCII exception - [All] When writing text files programmatically, encoding MUST be specified explicitly; prefer
.NETfor cross-version UTF-8 without BOM → Programmatic File Writing Encoding - [All] When producing byte-exact text artifacts, serializer output MUST be normalized to LF in memory before writing or comparing → Line Endings for Byte-Exact Text Artifacts
- [All] Text-level file comparison MUST read files with
Get-Content -Rawor[System.IO.File]::ReadAllText()under a fixed encoding/BOM convention;Get-Contentwithout-RawMUST NOT be used → Line Endings for Byte-Exact Text Artifacts - [All] True byte-for-byte comparison MUST read files with
[System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes(); this is required for hash/signature inputs and any other byte-exact identity check → Line Endings for Byte-Exact Text Artifacts
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +8 lines · +100 tokens per session a349f6a6d69d
- 2mo ago First seen · 2,818 lines · 36,263 tokens per session scan A fb4321240933
copilot-repo-template powershell.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository franklesniak/copilot-repo-template (9 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36,363 tokens to every session, about $0.1455 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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