claude-skills-journalism: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

claude-skills-journalism copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism. It costs 602 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Code-review instructions for a journalism-focused collection of Claude Code skills. They define project-specific issues to flag, including missing webpage metadata and prohibited AI-authorship credits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when reviewing pull requests, documentation, skills, commit messages, or public HTML pages in this project.
Why use it?
They help reviews catch repository rules that an ordinary code review might miss, especially requirements for public documentation pages and committed text.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is jamditis/claude-skills-journalism's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on claude-skills-journalism 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 claude-skills-journalism configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jamditis/claude-skills-journalism. 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/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/master/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 602 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 602 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00602 $0.00602
Opus 5 $0.00301 $0.00301
Sonnet 5 $0.00120 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00060 $0.00060

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8ea6cafad975, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-skills-journalism 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 9d 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 · 21 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 21 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot review instructions, claude-skills-journalism

Project context, skill format, and hook conventions live in CLAUDE.md. Both this file and CLAUDE.md are read by Copilot code review (cap ~4,000 chars each). This file lists the rules worth named attention on every PR.

Global rules to flag

These are Joe's user-level conventions from ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, restated here because Copilot's PR review bot does not read user-level files.

  • No AI-authorship attribution. Commit messages, PR bodies, skill markdown, and committed docs must not include "Generated with Claude Code", Co-Authored-By: Claude trailers, or any "AI-assisted"/"Generated by"-style notes. Mentioning model/company names in technical documentation is fine; the ban is on authorship credits.
  • Public-facing HTML pages must include <link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="..."> and full OG/Twitter meta tags: og:title, og:description, og:type, og:url, og:image (1200x630), og:image:width=1200, og:image:height=630, twitter:card=summary_large_image, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image. Scope: this repo's docs/ is the static site at skills.amditis.tech.

Project-specific bug classes to flag

  1. No hardcoded credentials in skill content. API keys, tokens, OAuth secrets, or any credential value must never appear in skill markdown, templates, or example code. Reference paths (e.g., pass show claude/services/X) and env-var names are fine; values are not.

  2. Web scraping skills must respect robots.txt and rate limits. Any skill in web-scraping/, digital-archive/, web-archiving/, or page-monitoring/ that fetches third-party content must document robots.txt compliance and apply rate limiting. Flag scraping examples that don't.

  3. FOIA/records skills must include privacy considerations. Skills under foia-requests/ or that handle personally-identifying information from public records must call out PII redaction, victim/witness identifier protection, and the distinction between public records and public-interest publication.

Read the full file on GitHub · 21 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. 9d ago First seen · 21 lines · 602 tokens per session scan A 8ea6cafad975

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claude-skills-journalism copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jamditis/claude-skills-journalism (389 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 602 tokens to every session, about $0.0030 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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