What is dt-mcp-server copilot-instructions.md?

A set of instructions for using GitHub Copilot with a Dynatrace AI workspace. Dynatrace is a monitoring platform, and these instructions explain how an agent connects to and works with a Dynatrace tenant, an individual monitoring environment.

It is for working consistently with Dynatrace environments through MCP servers or dtctl, a command-line tool, including querying and monitoring tasks.

It gives the agent a shared reference for tenant selection, available tools, session setup, prompts, notebooks, and Dynatrace Query Language rules.

How israel-salgado/dt-mcp-server configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to israel-salgado/dt-mcp-server. 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/israel-salgado/dt-mcp-server/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/israel-salgado/dt-mcp-server

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 4,125 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 4,125 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	$0.04125	$0.04125
Opus 5	$0.02063	$0.02063
Sonnet 5	$0.00825	$0.00825
Haiku 4.5	$0.00413	$0.00413

Measured 8d ago against content hash ff00dbac6e43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dt-mcp-server 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 8d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

dt-mcp-server CLAUDE.md — 94% identical, 49 lines differ

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dynatrace AI Workspace — Session Briefing

Governing Reference for Tenant Interaction (Agent-Agnostic)

The single governing reference file for GitHub Copilot is .github/copilot-instructions.md (auto-loaded at session start). For Claude it is CLAUDE.md. Both are kept in sync.

This file (and its counterpart) defines exactly how any agent interacts with a Dynatrace tenant:

Default/fallback MCP servers (the live bridge to the tenant via the Model Context Protocol).
How to switch tenants/contexts when changing agents.
Global rule, available prompts, skills, notebook guardrails, and agent-agnostic DQL rules.

Baseline tenant. guu84124 (production, public URL demo.live.dynatrace.com) is the only tenant ID referenced in this repo's source files — it is publicly reachable and safe to demo. The local nickname registry may seed it as demo.live (matching the public URL), but this is purely a convenience; the user may rename it or skip it entirely.

Session start. The agent reports the active tenant context in one line, using whichever path(s) are configured (resolving via the local nickname registry where possible). Neither path is required — use whichever is present:

dtctl configured → run dtctl config current-context and emit Active dtctl context: <NICKNAME> · <TENANTID> · <class> · <safety>. dtctl's active context is persistent on disk (carries over between VS Code sessions), so the agent does not auto-switch.
MCP configured → list the configured MCP server(s) from .vscode/mcp.json / .mcp.json and emit Active MCP server: <NICKNAME> · <TENANTID> (one line per server if multiple).
Both configured → emit one line for each. There is no "default tenant."

Switch context (preferred → nickname; fallback → raw tenant ID). The same nickname resolves both paths — single identity, two routes:

"switch to <NICKNAME>"             # dtctl: dtctl config use-context <id>
"use the <NICKNAME> server, …"      # MCP: select that server entry in chat
"switch to <TENANTID>"             # raw 8-char ID always works for dtctl

For dtctl switches the agent always echoes a one-line confirmation (Switching context → <NICKNAME> · <TENANTID> · <class> · <safety>) before running dtctl config use-context. For MCP-only sessions no use-context exists — the user picks the server by name in chat. Ambiguous or fuzzy names are never auto-resolved on either path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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.

8d ago First seen · 159 lines · 4,125 tokens per session scan A ff00dbac6e43

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dt-mcp-server copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository israel-salgado/dt-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,125 tokens to every session, about $0.0206 per session on Opus 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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