mcp-context-forge: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

mcp-context-forge copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from jrmatherly/mcp-context-forge. It costs 789 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for working on the MCP Context Forge codebase, including its structure, conventions, and configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
They help with project planning, implementation, testing, documentation, and navigation of the codebase.
Why use it?
They give a coding agent the repository-specific context needed to make consistent changes safely.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-context-forge 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 4d 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 · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BMAD Method — Project Instructions

Project Configuration

  • Project: mcp-context-forge
  • User: Jason
  • Communication Language: English
  • Document Output Language: English
  • User Skill Level: intermediate
  • Output Folder: {project-root}/_bmad-output
  • Planning Artifacts: {project-root}/_bmad-output/planning-artifacts
  • Implementation Artifacts: {project-root}/_bmad-output/implementation-artifacts
  • Project Knowledge: {project-root}/docs

BMAD Runtime Structure

  • Agent definitions: _bmad/bmm/agents/ (BMM module) and _bmad/core/agents/ (core)
  • Workflow definitions: _bmad/bmm/workflows/ (organized by phase)
  • Core tasks: _bmad/core/tasks/ (help, editorial review, indexing, sharding, adversarial review)
  • Core workflows: _bmad/core/workflows/ (brainstorming, party-mode, advanced-elicitation)
  • Workflow engine: _bmad/core/tasks/workflow.xml (executes YAML-based workflows)
  • Module configuration: _bmad/bmm/config.yaml
  • Core configuration: _bmad/core/config.yaml
  • Agent manifest: _bmad/_config/agent-manifest.csv
  • Workflow manifest: _bmad/_config/workflow-manifest.csv
  • Help manifest: _bmad/_config/bmad-help.csv
  • Agent memory: _bmad/_memory/

Key Conventions

  • Always load _bmad/bmm/config.yaml before any agent activation or workflow execution
  • Store all config fields as session variables: {user_name}, {communication_language}, {output_folder}, {planning_artifacts}, {implementation_artifacts}, {project_knowledge}
  • MD-based workflows execute directly — load and follow the .md file
  • YAML-based workflows require the workflow engine — load workflow.xml first, then pass the .yaml config
  • Follow step-based workflow execution: load steps JIT, never multiple at once
  • Save outputs after EACH step when using the workflow engine
  • The {project-root} variable resolves to the workspace root at runtime

Available Agents

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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.

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mcp-context-forge copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jrmatherly/mcp-context-forge (0 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 789 tokens to every session, about $0.0039 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 2026-09-03.

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