devin.cursorrules: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

devin.cursorrules copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from grapeot/devin.cursorrules. It costs 1,103 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of coding-agent instructions for the devin.cursorrules project. It covers project notes, planning, reusable lessons, and checking web-interface changes with screenshots.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing the project, especially for recording lessons, updating its scratchpad, planning work, and reviewing screenshots.
Why use it?
It keeps task planning and project knowledge in one place and asks the agent to verify visual changes instead of relying only on code.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is grapeot/devin.cursorrules's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on devin.cursorrules 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 devin.cursorrules configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is venv/bin/python ./tools/llm_api.py --prompt "What is the capital of France?" --provider "anthropic".

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to grapeot/devin.cursorrules. 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/grapeot/devin.cursorrules/master/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grapeot/devin.cursorrules

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
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Opus 5.5 $0.00441 $0.00441
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00221 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00110 $0.00110

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5ff072b360e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devin.cursorrules 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instructions

During your interaction with the user, if you find anything reusable in this project (e.g. version of a library, model name), especially about a fix to a mistake you made or a correction you received, you should take note in the Lessons section in the .github/copilot-instructions.md file so you will not make the same mistake again.

You should also use the .github/copilot-instructions.md file's "scratchpad" section as a Scratchpad to organize your thoughts. Especially when you receive a new task, you should first review the content of the Scratchpad, clear old different task if necessary, first explain the task, and plan the steps you need to take to complete the task. You can use todo markers to indicate the progress, e.g. [X] Task 1 [ ] Task 2

Also update the progress of the task in the Scratchpad when you finish a subtask. Especially when you finished a milestone, it will help to improve your depth of task accomplishment to use the Scratchpad to reflect and plan. The goal is to help you maintain a big picture as well as the progress of the task. Always refer to the Scratchpad when you plan the next step.

Tools

Note all the tools are in python. So in the case you need to do batch processing, you can always consult the python files and write your own script.

Screenshot Verification

The screenshot verification workflow allows you to capture screenshots of web pages and verify their appearance using LLMs. The following tools are available:

  1. Screenshot Capture:
venv/bin/python tools/screenshot_utils.py URL [--output OUTPUT] [--width WIDTH] [--height HEIGHT]
  1. LLM Verification with Images:
venv/bin/python tools/llm_api.py --prompt "Your verification question" --provider {openai|anthropic} --image path/to/screenshot.png

Example workflow:

from screenshot_utils import take_screenshot_sync
from llm_api import query_llm

# Take a screenshot

screenshot_path = take_screenshot_sync('https://example.com', 'screenshot.png')

# Verify with LLM

response = query_llm(
    "What is the background color and title of this webpage?",
    provider="openai",  # or "anthropic"
    image_path=screenshot_path
)
print(response)

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 2mo ago First seen · 106 lines · 1,103 tokens per session scan A 5ff072b360e9

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devin.cursorrules copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository grapeot/devin.cursorrules (5,953 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,103 tokens to every session, about $0.0044 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 2026-08-30.

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