AgentX: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/project-conventions.instructions.md

AgentX project-conventions.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from jnPiyush/AgentX. It costs 300 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of learned rules about a project's coding process, conventions, and common mistakes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Following required research, planning, testing, review, documentation, and quality-check steps when changing a codebase.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents consistent project guidance instead of making them rediscover the same rules in every session.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is jnPiyush/AgentX's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on AgentX 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 AgentX configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jnPiyush/AgentX. 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/jnPiyush/AgentX/master/.github/instructions/project-conventions.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jnPiyush/AgentX

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Measured 12d ago against content hash d97fe8b84c88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

AgentX project-conventions.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 12d 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/project-conventions.instructions.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Project Conventions (Learned)

Always-on. The quality loop and workflow gates live in AGENTS.md; shared mechanics in .github/AGENT-PROTOCOL.md. This file keeps only learned conventions that are not stated there.

  • Apply the Karpathy guidelines to implementation and review; run .frontier/runtime/frontier.ps1 scrub -Path <changed-area> before review or handoff.
  • Loop applicability is artifact/action-based (AGENTS.md), not role or keywords.
  • UI work defaults to browser validation: primary routes, an axe scan and one primary interaction. Report unavailable browser prerequisites instead of silently skipping them.
  • Agent model: fields and named council models are advisory. Preserve role behavior across capable models and each agent's tool and write boundaries.
  • Frontier is zero-copy: initialize with frontier.initializeLocalRuntime; do not copy bundled agent, skill, instruction, template, guide or prompt trees into a workspace.
  • After structural edits, search for removed identifiers and run the narrowest executable check before widening validation.
  • PowerShell ConvertTo-Json flattens single-element arrays; wrap with @(...).
  • Passing unit tests do not replace validation of UI, wiring or release boundaries.
  • Keep durable decisions and pitfalls concise in /memories/.
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.

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  5. 1mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 536 tokens per session scan A b34b65cd4c91

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AgentX project-conventions.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jnPiyush/AgentX (17 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 300 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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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