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/joelbondoux/work-timer/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JoelBondoux/Work-TimerWhat 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 | $0.00851 | $0.00851 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00426 | $0.00426 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00170 | $0.00170 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00085 | $0.00085 |
Grade A, and why
Work-Timer 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 yesterday.
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 — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Copilot Instructions for Work-Timer
Repository Workflow
- Treat
masteras production-ready at all times. - Never perform feature development directly on
master. - Create a short-lived branch from
masterfor each task. - Open a PR to merge back into
master. - Merge only after checks pass (
npm testandnpm run build). - Prefer squash merge.
Branch Naming
feature/<short-description>fix/<short-description>chore/<short-description>
Development Guardrails
- Keep changes focused and minimal.
- Do not bypass safety behavior in timer, billing, export, or destructive flows.
- Preserve current CLI and MCP behavior unless the task explicitly changes it.
- For user-facing PowerShell/terminal output formatting, follow
docs/powershell-output-style-guide.mdas the default standard for current and future output UX changes.
Safety And Security First Policy
- Treat user data protection, billing correctness, and destructive-operation safety as top priority over speed.
- Default to least-privilege and non-destructive behavior: prefer dry-run, explicit confirmations, and reversible changes.
- Never weaken or bypass safety checks, authorization boundaries, or validation logic unless explicitly required and documented.
- If a change introduces meaningful security, privacy, or integrity risk, stop and escalate with options, risks, and a recommended safe default.
- Call out security-impacting changes in PR summaries and include focused validation steps.
Local Staging Workspace Rules
- Use
staging/for local-only test notes, debug helpers, and temporary artifacts. - Treat
staging/as non-production and non-release content. - Do not commit files from
staging/. - Do not reference
staging/as a required documentation location; durable docs must live underdocs/.
Required Validation Before PR
- Run
npm testandnpm run build. - Run
npm run check:productionto catch debug/dev-only artifacts before merge. - If source files change under
src/, ensure generated outputs underdist/are regenerated and committed when applicable. - If CLI command behavior changes, update docs in
docs/cli-reference.mdand relevant setup/readme pages. - If MCP tools change, update
docs/mcp-tools.mdto keep tool docs and counts accurate.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 82 lines · 851 tokens per session scan A 8057992f3401
Work-Timer copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository JoelBondoux/Work-Timer (0 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 851 tokens to every session, about $0.0043 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 2026-08-31.
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