autonomo copilot-instructions.md

Repository instructions for Autonomo that describe its design principles and preferred way of building tools. They tell coding agents which kinds of changes to make and which kinds to avoid.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing Autonomo so new code follows its clean-primitives approach and avoids adding unwanted smart behaviour.
Why use it?
They give an agent clear project-specific boundaries instead of making it infer the repository’s design philosophy from the code.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/gtfodevs/autonomo/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gtfodevs/autonomo

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 442 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 442 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found 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 $0.00442 $0.00442
Opus 5 $0.00221 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00088 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00044 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5a278c197caa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autonomo 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 2d 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 60 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 60 lines · 442 tokens per session scan A 5a278c197caa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

autonomo copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gtfodevs/autonomo (36 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 442 tokens to every session, about $0.0022 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 2026-08-30.