MCP: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

MCP copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from iduryodhanrao/MCP. It costs 1,188 tokens per session, scanned C, original, no licence file.

A set of Copilot instructions that points to the official Model Context Protocol documentation. MCP is a standard way for coding agents to use external tools and data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding Copilot while developing or maintaining an MCP server with the Python FastMCP SDK.
Why use it?
It gives contributors a documentation reference when working on an MCP project built with Python FastMCP.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,188 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,188 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.01188 $0.01188
Opus 5.5 $0.00475 $0.00475
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00238 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00119 $0.00119

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8436ffa4063b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

MCP copilot-instructions.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- Use this file to provide workspace-specific custom instructions to Copilot. For more details, visit https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/copilot-customization#_use-a-githubcopilotinstructionsmd-file -->
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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.

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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 · 109 lines · 1,188 tokens per session scan C 8436ffa4063b

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MCP copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository iduryodhanrao/MCP (0 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 1,188 tokens to every session, about $0.0048 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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