apex-accelerator: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/agent-skills.instructions.md

apex-accelerator agent-skills.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator. It costs 1,962 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for creating Agent Skills for GitHub Copilot. Agent Skills are folders containing instructions, scripts, and reference files that Copilot can load when a task needs them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review a skill’s SKILL.md file, set valid frontmatter such as its name and description, and organize supporting instructions or scripts.
Why use it?
It helps skill authors follow the required file structure and metadata rules so their skills can be discovered and used correctly. It also makes the skill’s purpose and trigger conditions clear.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

This is jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on apex-accelerator 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 apex-accelerator configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator. 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/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/main/.github/instructions/agent-skills.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,962 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,962 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01962 $0.01962
Opus 5 $0.00981 $0.00981
Sonnet 5 $0.00392 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00196 $0.00196

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6452c292e158, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apex-accelerator agent-skills.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 8d 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/agent-skills.instructions.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Skills File Guidelines

Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Copilot loads on demand. They follow the Agent Skills open standard and work across VS Code, Copilot CLI, and Copilot coding agent.

For the complete official reference, see VS Code Agent Skills docs.

Required SKILL.md Frontmatter

---
name: webapp-testing
description: "Toolkit for testing local web apps using Playwright. Use when asked to verify frontend functionality, debug UI behavior, or capture screenshots."
---
Field Required Constraints
name Yes Lowercase, hyphens for spaces, max 64 chars. Must match parent directory name.
description Yes State WHAT it does, WHEN to use it, and KEYWORDS; max 1024 chars
argument-hint No Hint text shown in chat input when invoked as a / slash command
user-invocable No Boolean, default true. Set false to hide from / menu
disable-model-invocation No Boolean, default false. Set true to require manual / invocation only
license No Reference to LICENSE.txt or SPDX identifier

Name matching rule: The name field MUST match its parent directory. If the directory is .github/skills/webapp-testing/, the name must be webapp-testing. Mismatched names prevent the skill from loading.

Description is the discovery key: Copilot reads ONLY name + description to decide whether to load a skill. A vague description means the skill never activates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 176 lines · 1,962 tokens per session scan A 6452c292e158

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apex-accelerator agent-skills.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator (50 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,962 tokens to every session, about $0.0098 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 2026-08-30.

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