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.
npx agentmods add instructions/gavinmcfall/home-ops/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gavinmcfall/home-opsWhat 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 | $0.01387 | $0.01387 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00694 | $0.00694 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00277 | $0.00277 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00139 | $0.00139 |
Grade A, and why
home-ops 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 yesterday.
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 — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
GitHub Copilot Instructions
Documentation Location
All comprehensive repository context is centralized in docs/ai-context/:
- docs/ai-context/README.md - Navigation and overview
- docs/ai-context/ARCHITECTURE.md - GitOps architecture and key decisions
- docs/ai-context/DOMAIN.md - Business rules and domain model
- docs/ai-context/WORKFLOWS.md - Operational workflows
- docs/ai-context/TOOLS.md - Discovery and validation commands
- docs/ai-context/CONVENTIONS.md - Coding standards
Please reference these files for complete context about the repository structure, workflows, and conventions.
Quick Reference
Core Pattern
This homelab uses GitOps + templated manifests:
- Taskfile and Makejinja render templates from
bootstrap/ - Flux applies manifests from
kubernetes/apps/<namespace>/<app>/ - Talos manages immutable node configuration
Essential Workflows
Deploying New Apps
- Create directory:
kubernetes/apps/<namespace>/<app>/ - Add files:
kustomization.yaml,app/helmrelease.yaml, optionalexternalsecret.yaml - Configure placeholders:
${SECRET_DOMAIN},${DB_URI}, etc. - Render:
task configure - Validate:
task kubernetes:kubeconform - Check diff:
flux diff kustomization <namespace> - Create PR, merge, monitor:
flux get helmrelease <name>
Updating Configuration
- Edit templates in
bootstrap/or app manifests - Render:
task configure - Validate:
task kubernetes:kubeconform - Review git diff
- Create PR with
flux diffevidence
Key Rules
Do:
- ✅ Always run
task configureafter editing templates - ✅ Use placeholders for secrets (
${SECRET_DOMAIN},${DB_URI}) - ✅ Define storage explicitly in HelmRelease
persistencesections - ✅ Pin container images:
<tag>@<digest>(usecrane digest) - ✅ Follow conventional commits:
chore(app): description - ✅ Run
task kubernetes:kubeconformbefore PRs - ✅ Include
flux diffoutput in PR descriptions
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.
- yesterday First seen · 166 lines · 1,387 tokens per session scan A 47e2740bc95e
home-ops copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gavinmcfall/home-ops (37 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,387 tokens to every session, about $0.0069 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 2026-09-01.
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