familia-mcp: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

familia-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from gabrielmahia/familia-mcp. It costs 179 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of mpesa-mcp copilot-instructions.md, MIT.

Repository-wide coding instructions that tell an automated coding assistant what to read and check before changing a project. They define how issues, branches, draft pull requests, tests, and evidence should be handled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to guide coding agents working on GitHub repositories, especially when several people or agents may work at the same time.
Why use it?
They reduce duplicated work, unsupported claims, and risky changes by requiring the assistant to inspect existing work and verify facts first.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is gabrielmahia/familia-mcp's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on familia-mcp 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 familia-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gabrielmahia/familia-mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gabrielmahia/familia-mcp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 179 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 179 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00179 $0.00179
Opus 5.5 $0.00072 $0.00072
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00018

Measured 27d ago against content hash de8b4a466eec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

familia-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 27d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to mpesa-mcp copilot-instructions.md — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Repository-wide Copilot instructions

Read AGENTS.md and agent-context.json before substantive work.

Git is the durable memory bus. GitHub Issues are the task registry. An open draft PR is the concurrency claim.

Before coding:

  1. inspect open Issues and open/draft PRs for overlap;
  2. run the baseline tests;
  3. work from an Issue-scoped branch;
  4. open a draft PR before substantive changes.

Do not duplicate an overlapping claimed workstream. Review, red-team, subdivide, or choose another issue.

Never fabricate test results, sources, file paths, APIs, or external state. Model consensus is not evidence. Verify prior agent work before extending it.

Do not change licensing, expose credentials, weaken provenance/truth labels, or take irreversible external actions without explicit authorization.

Repository-specific rules in AGENTS.md are authoritative when stricter.

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. 27d ago First seen · 20 lines · 179 tokens per session scan A de8b4a466eec

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familia-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gabrielmahia/familia-mcp (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 179 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to mpesa-mcp copilot-instructions.md, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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