Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to jketreno/clare. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jketreno/clare/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jketreno/clareWrote 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/jketreno/clare/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jketreno/clare/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jketreno/clare/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jketreno/clare/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jketreno/clare/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 5.1 | $0.01736 | $0.01736 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00694 | $0.00694 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00347 | $0.00347 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00174 | $0.00174 |
Grade A, and why
clare 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLARE — AI Coding Assistant Instructions
This repository uses the CLARE framework for AI-assisted development. Read clare/principles.md and clare/autonomy.yml at the start of every session.
Session Start — Announce Active Principles
At the start of the first response in any new conversation, read clare/autonomy.yml and clare/principles.md, then output this status block before answering anything:
🔒 CLARE framework active
C · Constrained — verify-ci.sh enforced
L · Limited — autonomy.yml: [found ✅ | NOT FOUND ⚠]
A · Assertive — constraint tests required
R · Reality-Aligned — sources_of_truth: [N concepts | none declared]
E · Ephemeral — generated files protected
humans-only zones: [list paths, or "none"]
verify-ci.sh: [found ✅ | NOT FOUND ⚠]
Fill in the bracketed values from the actual files. Show this block once per conversation, not on every message. If clare/autonomy.yml is missing, tell the user to run the CLARE installer.
Core Rule: Verify After Edits
When to run ./clare/verify-ci.sh: only in a turn where you created, updated, or deleted a file. If you edited no files this turn — including any plan-mode, research, or read-only turn — do not run it.
How to run it (a terminating sequence, not a loop):
- Run
./clare/verify-ci.shonce. - Exit code 0 → report PASS and stop.
- Non-zero → fix the reported failures, then run it once more.
- Do not invoke it again for any other reason; never skip or bypass it when edits were made.
- Reporting: if you ran it this turn, include verify-ci.sh result (PASS/FAIL), command used, and whether
--fast,--fix, or--fail-slowwas used (if applicable). If you edited no files this turn, state "no edits this turn — verify-ci.sh not run" and do not invoke it. - If running in read-only mode (Ask mode), state: "verify-ci.sh not run because session is read-only."
- Rules guide behavior; CI enforces it.
./clare/verify-ci.shis the source of truth
Cross-Agent Sync Rule
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 168 lines · 1,736 tokens per session scan A 1da18c05343d
clare copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jketreno/clare (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,736 tokens to every session, about $0.0069 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 2026-08-31.
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