mcp-aruba-email: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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mcp-aruba-email copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from jackfioru92/mcp-aruba-email. It costs 151 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Development instructions for a Python server that lets an AI assistant access Aruba email through IMAP, a standard protocol for reading mail from a server. They describe the project structure, libraries, and coding guidelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing the server, email client, dependencies, or handling of email credentials and messages.
Why use it?
It gives contributors a shared way to work on email access, including safe message parsing, error handling, and reduced repeated requests.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is jackfioru92/mcp-aruba-email's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on mcp-aruba-email 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-aruba-email configures →

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Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.00076
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00030
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00015

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Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-aruba-email 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.

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What it actually says

MCP Aruba Email Server - Copilot Instructions

Project Overview

Python MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for accessing Aruba email via IMAP.

Technology Stack

  • Python 3.10+
  • MCP SDK
  • imaplib (IMAP client)
  • email library (email parsing)

Project Structure

  • src/mcp_aruba/server.py - Main MCP server
  • src/mcp_aruba/email_client.py - IMAP email client
  • pyproject.toml - Python dependencies
  • .env - Email credentials (gitignored)

Development Guidelines

  • Use type hints
  • Handle IMAP errors gracefully
  • Cache email data to reduce IMAP requests
  • Parse email content safely
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 · 23 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A 4f5d5152a213

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mcp-aruba-email copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jackfioru92/mcp-aruba-email (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 151 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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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