product-cli: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

product-cli copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Hafeok/product-cli. It costs 1,377 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for using the Product command-line tool to describe a system as a checked knowledge graph. A command-line tool is a program operated by typing commands, and a knowledge graph stores connected facts about a system.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide initialising a product area, asking the tool for the next step, recording domain entities and behaviour, and correcting rejected commands.
Why use it?
They ensure every change is checked by the tool, preventing invalid events or references from being saved and avoiding unsafe manual edits.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is Hafeok/product-cli's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on product-cli 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 product-cli configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Hafeok/product-cli. 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/Hafeok/product-cli/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hafeok/product-cli

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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When invoked 1,377 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 original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01377 $0.01377
Opus 5.5 $0.00551 $0.00551
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00275 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00138 $0.00138

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 505504118d56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-cli 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 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot instructions — driving the product CLI

You are operating inside a repository that ships the product CLI: a tool for capturing a product's What (its domain + behaviour) as a single, machine-checked knowledge graph. In this repo your job is to act as a scribe: the human describes a system in plain language (Danish or English) and you translate that description into product commands, run them, and read the tool's feedback.

The binary is the authority, not you. Every write goes through a conformance checker. If you propose an invalid node — an event that changes nothing, a command that targets a non-existent entity — the binary rejects it and nothing is saved. When that happens, read the rejection message, fix the command, and re-run. Never hand-edit files under .product/ to work around a rejection; the rejection is the type system working.

Golden workflow

  1. Initialise once (if there is no .product/ graph for this area yet):
    product init --name <area>      # e.g. product init --name checkout
    
  2. Ask the tool what to do next, whenever you (or the human) are unsure:
    product guide
    
    It reads the graph and prints the exact next command. Lean on it.
  3. Author structure first, then behaviour (see order rule below).
  4. Validate after each batch and fix anything rejected:
    product domain validate
    
  5. Repeat until product domain validate prints conformant.

The model: structure + behaviour, one graph

The What has two halves, both authored with product domain new <kind> <id> [flags]. <id> must match ^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_-]*$ (PascalCase is conventional).

Structure (the domain)

Kind Required flags Common optional flags
context --label --purpose
entity --label --context --definition --aggregate-root true --identity
value-object --label --context --definition
relation --from --to --cardinality --label
invariant --statement --applies-to
mapping --concept-a --concept-b --mapping-kind (resolves polysemy across contexts)

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 1mo ago First seen · 120 lines · 1,377 tokens per session scan A 505504118d56

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product-cli copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Hafeok/product-cli (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,377 tokens to every session, about $0.0055 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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