What is tda copilot-instructions.md?

A set of Copilot review instructions for tda, a thread-dump analyzer. It focuses on Swing's event-dispatch thread, memory and performance, and parsing logic.

Use it to guide Copilot reviews of tda code, especially code involving Swing user-interface threading, memory or performance behavior, and parsing.

It gives Copilot specific technical concerns to check when reviewing this Java-related analyzer. That helps reviews cover concurrency, resource use, and the correctness of parsed data.

How irockel/tda configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to irockel/tda. 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/irockel/tda/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/irockel/tda

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/irockel/tda/copilot-instructions/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/irockel/tda/copilot-instructions)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/irockel/tda/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/irockel/tda/copilot-instructions/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/irockel/tda/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/irockel/tda/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 441 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 441 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 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00441	$0.00441
Opus 5.5	$0.00176	$0.00176
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00088	$0.00088
Haiku 4.5	$0.00044	$0.00044

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2bbc782f0082, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tda 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 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/copilot-instructions.md · 32 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed LGPL-2.1

The repository is licensed LGPL-2.1, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 32 lines · 441 tokens per session scan A 2bbc782f0082

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tda copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository irockel/tda (553 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed LGPL-2.1. It adds 441 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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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