servicenow-mcp-ai: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

servicenow-mcp-ai copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from IvanBBaev/servicenow-mcp-ai. It costs 890 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository guide for a TypeScript Model Context Protocol server that lets an AI client operate ServiceNow through its REST interfaces. It describes the server’s layers, authentication, safety controls, and API modules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or changing ServiceNow operations, authentication, policy checks, MCP tools, or request handling.
Why use it?
It helps contributors keep ServiceNow access, security checks, and server wiring separated and consistent.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is IvanBBaev/servicenow-mcp-ai's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on servicenow-mcp-ai 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 servicenow-mcp-ai configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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Opus 5 $0.00445 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00178 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00089 $0.00089

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4894c759a1da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

servicenow-mcp-ai 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot instructions — servicenow-mcp-ai server

This is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server written in TypeScript that lets an MCP client operate a ServiceNow instance across its full REST surface: 67 tools in 18 packages (Table, Aggregate, Attachment, Import Set, Batch, CMDB/IRE, Catalog, Change, Knowledge, Email, Flows, Codecheck, ATF…), plus script intelligence, multi-instance profiles and plan-and-apply write safety.

Architecture (layered — boundaries are ESLint-enforced)

  • src/core/ — instance-agnostic plumbing: config.ts (env-file ConfigStore), settings.ts (every SN_* knob), policy.ts (two-axis table/package policy), http.ts + http-util.ts (retry matrix, per-host semaphore, telemetry), auth.ts/oauth-login.ts/jwt.ts/mtls.ts (all auth methods), host.ts (SSRF guard + host allow-list), write-journal.ts, errors.ts.
  • src/api/ — one module per ServiceNow REST area (table, aggregate, cmdb, catalog, change, flows, codecheck, atf…), all over mock-testable fetch.
  • src/mcp/ — server wiring: registry.ts (declarative tool manifest — a package is a plug-in), define.ts, result shaping, redact.ts (DF-5), prompts and resources.
  • src/tools/ — the per-package tool definitions consumed by the registry.
  • src/core/jira/ + src/api/jira/ — Jira Cloud client scaffolding; no Jira tools are exposed yet (pending the ARCH-14 decision in project/TODO.md).
  • bin/ — entry points; src/index.ts is the server entry (stdio by default, Streamable HTTP with SN_TRANSPORT=http).

Credentials & policy

  • Env-file chain: SN_ENV_FILE~/.config/servicenow-mcp-ai/.env → project .env (git-ignored, written 0600); real env vars take precedence. Runtime updates go through the servicenow_set_credentials tool.
  • Never log or echo SN_PASSWORD / tokens.
  • Writes are plan-by-default (SN_WRITE_MODE), journaled per profile; policy axes: SN_TABLES_ALLOW/SN_TABLES_DENY/SN_READONLY + SN_PACKAGES_DENY/SN_PACKAGES_READONLY.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 8d ago First seen · 63 lines · 890 tokens per session scan A 4894c759a1da

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servicenow-mcp-ai copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository IvanBBaev/servicenow-mcp-ai (8 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 890 tokens to every session, about $0.0044 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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