spec-driven-app-template: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/run.instructions.md

spec-driven-app-template run.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from jamesmontemagno/spec-driven-app-template. It costs 9 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for a template that uses written specifications and connected tools to guide software development. Research-driven development means investigating requirements and evidence before building to the specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working in the spec-driven-app-template project, especially for research and implementation based on specifications.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a project context for developing software from documented requirements and research.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is jamesmontemagno/spec-driven-app-template's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on spec-driven-app-template 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 spec-driven-app-template configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jamesmontemagno/spec-driven-app-template. 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/jamesmontemagno/spec-driven-app-template/main/.github/instructions/run.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/spec-driven-app-template

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 9 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 9 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00009 $0.00009
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00004
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00002
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00001

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 25820ad34a3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-driven-app-template run.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 2mo 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/instructions/run.instructions.md · 6 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed MIT

The repository is licensed MIT, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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. 2mo ago First seen · 6 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 25820ad34a3c

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spec-driven-app-template run.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jamesmontemagno/spec-driven-app-template (38 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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