ssh-mcp: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

ssh-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from jppradhan/ssh-mcp. It costs 177 tokens per session, scanned C, original, no licence file.

A set of Copilot instructions for building an MCP server with Node.js and TypeScript. MCP is a way for an AI agent to call tools, and SSH lets it run commands on another computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while developing or reviewing the ssh-mcp project's Node.js and TypeScript code.
Why use it?
It gives project-specific guidance for implementing a server that executes remote commands over SSH.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is jppradhan/ssh-mcp's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on ssh-mcp 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 ssh-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jppradhan/ssh-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/jppradhan/ssh-mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jppradhan/ssh-mcp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 177 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 177 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00177 $0.00177
Opus 5.5 $0.00071 $0.00071
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00018

Measured 2mo ago against content hash cb0d37775d39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

ssh-mcp copilot-instructions.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- Use this file to provide workspace-specific custom instructions to Copilot. For more details, visit https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/copilot-customization#_use-a-githubcopilotinstructionsmd-file -->
.github/copilot-instructions.md · 22 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 2mo ago First seen · 22 lines · 177 tokens per session scan C cb0d37775d39

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ssh-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jppradhan/ssh-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1y ago), with no licence file. It adds 177 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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