design-system: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/global.instructions.md

design-system global.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from iress/design-system. It costs 853 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for testing packages in the Iress Design System, a Yarn monorepo containing related components, tokens, and tools. They list commands for all tests, affected packages, individual packages, and individual test files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running the full test suite, testing only changed packages, testing a named workspace, running one test file, and producing coverage reports.
Why use it?
They make it clear which test command to use and remind agents to wait for tests to finish. This avoids confusing normal startup delay with failure and avoids accidentally leaving development processes running.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is iress/design-system's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on design-system 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 design-system configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to iress/design-system. 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/iress/design-system/main/.github/instructions/global.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iress/design-system

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Grade A, and why

design-system global.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.

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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/global.instructions.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Package dependencies:

  • @iress-oss/ids-components depends on:
    • @iress-oss/ids-tokens

Test Commands

Run all tests

yarn test          # All packages
yarn test:affected # Affected packages only

Run tests for specific packages

yarn test:components
yarn test:storybook-addon
yarn test:tokens

Run single test files

# Most common approach
yarn test:components Button.test.tsx

# Direct workspace commands (recommended)
yarn workspace @iress-oss/ids-components run test:coverage Button.test.tsx

Important for AI Assistants

When running tests via run_in_terminal:

  • Always use isBackground=false for test commands
  • WAIT PATIENTLY for tests to start up and complete (can take 30 seconds or more)
  • Do not cancel or make additional tool calls until you see completion messages
  • Test startup has overhead - the delay is normal, not a failure
  • Look for final completion messages before proceeding with other actions

Development modes

yarn test:coverage         # Run tests with coverage reporting
yarn workspace @iress-oss/ids-components run test:coverage Button.test.tsx --watch

# Verbose output
yarn vitest run --reporter=verbose

Important: Ensure your vitest.config.ts (or equivalent Vitest config file) includes reporters: ['verbose'] in the configuration. This is required for compatibility with yarn workspace test commands and to ensure proper output formatting.

Note: Test files must be in the project's src/ directory (e.g., packages/components/src/Button.test.tsx)

File Organization

For detailed file organization principles covering implementation and test files, see file-organization.instructions.md.

Quick Reference

Implementation Files (.ts/.tsx):

  1. Imports → Types/Interfaces → Constants → Helper Functions → Main Exports

Test Files (.test.ts/.test.tsx):

  1. Imports → Mocks → Constants/Test Data → Helper Functions → Test Suites

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 2mo ago First seen · 122 lines · 853 tokens per session scan A e36348d7a325

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design-system global.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository iress/design-system (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 853 tokens to every session, about $0.0034 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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