Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to johnpapa/vscode-cloak. 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/johnpapa/vscode-cloak/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnpapa/vscode-cloakWrote 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/johnpapa/vscode-cloak/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/johnpapa/vscode-cloak/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/johnpapa/vscode-cloak/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/johnpapa/vscode-cloak/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/johnpapa/vscode-cloak/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 | $0.00868 | $0.00868 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00347 | $0.00347 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00174 | $0.00174 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00087 | $0.00087 |
Grade A, and why
vscode-cloak 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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Copilot Instructions — Cloak
Project Type
This is a VS Code extension written in TypeScript. The package.json contributes field is the product spec — commands, settings, menus, and keybindings are all declared there.
TypeScript Conventions
- Use
strictmode (enforced bytsconfig.json) - Prefer
async/awaitover raw Promises - Use the
vscodenamespace for all VS Code API calls — import asimport * as vscode from 'vscode' - Destructure
vscodesubmodules at the top of a file when used repeatedly (e.g.,const { commands } = vscode) - Export functions and classes — avoid default exports
- Use enums for string constants (
Commands,Settings,Sections) rather than raw strings
Extension Patterns
- Command handler pattern: Each command handler is an exported async function in
src/commands.ts, registered insrc/extension.tsviacommands.registerCommand(Commands.enumValue, handler) - Configuration access: Always use the helpers in
src/configuration/— never callvscode.workspace.getConfiguration()directly in command handlers - Re-export barrels: Both
src/models/index.tsandsrc/configuration/index.tsre-export all members. Import from the barrel ('./models','./configuration') not from individual files - Status bar: Single shared instance in
src/statusbar.ts— left-aligned, uses Codicon$(eye)
Code Style
- Formatter: Prettier — single quotes, trailing commas, 100-char line width, 2-space indent (see
.prettierrc.js) - Linter: ESLint with
@typescript-eslintparser (see.eslintrc) - Lint with
npm run lint, auto-fix withnpm run lint-fix
Test Conventions
- Runner: Mocha with TDD UI (
suite,test,suiteSetup,suiteTeardown) - Host: Tests run inside a VS Code instance via
vscode-test— they are integration tests, not unit tests - Test files: Place tests in
src/test/suite/with.test.tssuffix - Setup/teardown: Use
setupTestSuite()andteardownTestSuite()fromsrc/test/suite/lib/setup-teardown-test-suite.tsto save and restore user settings - Assertions: Use Node's built-in
assertmodule - Run with
npm test(compiles first) ornpm run just-test(assumes already compiled)
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 868 tokens per session scan A 884258a9c13f
vscode-cloak copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository johnpapa/vscode-cloak (119 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 868 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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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