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.github/instructions/tauri.instructions.md

hecate tauri.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from hecatehq/hecate. It costs 147 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for developing the Hecate desktop app with Tauri, a framework for building desktop apps from web interfaces. It explains how the app’s Go background process and embedded React interface must work together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing the desktop app, its background process connection, permissions, data formats, or startup and port handling.
Why use it?
It helps prevent broken startup behavior, mismatched permissions, incorrect naming, or inconsistent version information.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is hecatehq/hecate's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on hecate 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 hecate configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to hecatehq/hecate. 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/hecatehq/hecate/master/.github/instructions/tauri.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hecatehq/hecate

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 147 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 147 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

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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 5.1 $0.00147 $0.00147
Opus 5.5 $0.00059 $0.00059
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00015

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9c4e510c5d20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hecate tauri.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/tauri.instructions.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Tauri Desktop App

For desktop work, read docs-ai/skills/tauri/SKILL.md before editing.

High-signal rules:

  • The desktop app wraps the Go hecate sidecar and loads the embedded React UI over loopback.
  • Keep sidecar naming, permissions, schemas, and version stamping in sync.
  • Do not bypass the sidecar lifecycle helpers or silently change startup/port behavior.
  • Run the Rust/Tauri verification called for by the touched area, and report any platform-specific checks you could not run.
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 · 18 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A 9c4e510c5d20

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hecate tauri.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository hecatehq/hecate (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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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