What is personal_kb python.instructions.md?

Project-specific guidance for a local file-search knowledge base used with Copilot CLI. It covers a Python-based document-ingestion process and searching with ripgrep, a fast command-line text search tool.

Use it when maintaining or documenting this knowledge-base project. It helps choose the project’s virtual environment, keep scripts portable, and create isolated test files.

It keeps the project’s Python usage simple and consistent while avoiding assumptions about cloud services or vector databases, which are systems that store documents for similarity search.

How haxudev/personal_kb configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to haxudev/personal_kb. 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/haxudev/personal_kb/main/.github/instructions/python.instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/haxudev/personal_kb

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/haxudev/personal_kb/python/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/haxudev/personal_kb/python)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/haxudev/personal_kb/python"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/haxudev/personal_kb/python/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/haxudev/personal_kb/python"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/haxudev/personal_kb/python.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 73 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 73 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00073	$0.00073
Opus 5.5	$0.00029	$0.00029
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00015	$0.00015
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00007

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0c9dc783e36a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

personal_kb python.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.

.github/instructions/python.instructions.md · 10 lines

What it actually says

Use the project's .venv when documenting or running Python commands.
Keep Python scripts dependency-light and readable.
Preserve cross-platform behavior where practical.
Do not assume cloud services or vector databases exist in this repository.
Tests must use self-created fixtures, not borrowed project documents.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 10 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 0c9dc783e36a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

personal_kb python.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository haxudev/personal_kb (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session, about $0.0003 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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