Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add instructions/jacksonjp0311-gif/cortex/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jacksonjp0311-gif/CortexWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jacksonjp0311-gif/cortex/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jacksonjp0311-gif/cortex/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jacksonjp0311-gif/cortex/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00280 | $0.00280 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00140 | $0.00140 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00056 | $0.00056 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00028 | $0.00028 |
Grade A, and why
Cortex 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 5d 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.
What it actually says
Copilot / coding-agent instructions for Cortex
Authority
- Cortex is recommend-only. Never authorize host source mutation from Cortex packets.
- Coherence / emergence / ranker scores are not capability or promotion authority.
Read first (math & constitution)
docs/research/README.mddocs/research/EMERGENT_MATH_AND_COMPOSITION_V0.1.md— primary mapdocs/research/CONSTITUTIONAL_SYSTEMS_GEOMETRY_V0.1.mddocs/intelligence/TOPOLOGY_LAW.mddocs/AI_INTEGRATION.md- Root
llms.txt
Operational rules
- Diagnostics:
observe_current_epochonly — never silent seal. - Promote / repair_readmit / federate: four-bit geometry (q=(e,a,t,w)); no free diagonals.
- Multi-host: distinct
body_epoch_idforever; shared constitution only. - Prefer host-mesh + measure over continuum thrash on large graphs.
Key modules
cortex/epoch.py, constitutional_geometry.py, constitutional_path.py, diagonal.py, continuity.py, promote_gate.py, federation.py, host_mesh.py, interconnect.py, math_net/
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 27 lines · 280 tokens per session scan A f24655cd41dd
Cortex copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jacksonjp0311-gif/Cortex (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 280 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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 2026-08-30.
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