What is ie_mcp copilot-instructions.md?

Repository instructions for ie-mcp, a server that provides information about tracked software packages. They define when to use it, including for Brightway, a toolkit for life-cycle assessment—the study of environmental impacts across a product’s life.

They are for routing questions and code work involving tracked packages, especially Brightway terms such as activities, exchanges, inventories, and impact assessments.

They help the agent choose the right package lookup and check the local environment before relying on version-sensitive information.

How JonasKlimt/ie_mcp configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to JonasKlimt/ie_mcp. 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/JonasKlimt/ie_mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JonasKlimt/ie_mcp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jonasklimt/ie_mcp/copilot-instructions/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jonasklimt/ie_mcp/copilot-instructions)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jonasklimt/ie_mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jonasklimt/ie_mcp/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/jonasklimt/ie_mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/jonasklimt/ie_mcp/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 1,439 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,439 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

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	$0.01439	$0.01439
Opus 5.5	$0.00576	$0.00576
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00288	$0.00288
Haiku 4.5	$0.00144	$0.00144

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 147f117f1f94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ie_mcp 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Copilot Instructions for ie-mcp

These instructions apply whenever you are working in this repository or using the ie-mcp MCP server from any workspace.

Automatic ie-mcp usage for tracked packages

If the user asks about any package that is tracked by this server, or if the current question/code clearly concerns a tracked package, use the ie-mcp MCP tools by default even when the user did not explicitly ask to use ie-mcp.

Do not wait for explicit user wording such as "use ie-mcp" when package intent is already clear from the question or code context.

Keyword routing map (automatic triggers)

If trigger terms appear in the user request, code context, stack traces, or variable names, route via ie-mcp automatically.

Core Brightway LCA workflow
- Triggers: LCA, life cycle assessment, LCI, LCIA, activity, activities, exchange, exchanges, biosphere, technosphere, inventory, database, functional unit, characterization, impact assessment, impact category, normalization, weighting, allocation, system boundary, contribution analysis, hotspot
- Check first: brightway25 (or brightway2 for legacy), then bw2data, bw2calc, bw2io, bw2analyzer
Scenario / prospective LCA
- Triggers: prospective, scenario, future, IAM, transformation, premise, wurst, pathway
- Check first: premise, wurst, pathways, randonneur, randonneur_data, ecoinvent_migrate
Temporal / dynamic LCA
- Triggers: dynamic LCA, time-dependent, temporal, timeline, dynamic characterization, time-explicit
- Check first: bw_temporalis, bw_timex, dynamic_characterization
Regionalized / spatial LCA
- Triggers: regionalized, spatial, location-specific, region, geo
- Check first: brightway2_regional, simple_regional, regioinvent, edges
IO / hybrid / MRIO workflows
- Triggers: MRIO, EXIOBASE, input-output, hybrid LCA, footprint, trade-embodied
- Check first: pymrio, bw_exiobase, brightway_hybrid, mrio_common_metadata

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 133 lines · 1,439 tokens per session scan A 147f117f1f94

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ie_mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository JonasKlimt/ie_mcp (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 1,439 tokens to every session, about $0.0058 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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