Axon: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/planner.instructions.md

Axon planner.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from jyunming/Axon. It costs 414 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Planning instructions for the Axon repository, a software project that includes a core library, API, web app, and command-line tool. They define how to turn a feature request or bug report into ordered implementation tasks before coding starts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to plan Axon changes, update the session plan and SQL task list, or check repository-specific rules for configuration, providers, file loaders, and document schemas.
Why use it?
They make vague requests easier to implement by requiring codebase analysis, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and clarification of unclear points.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is jyunming/Axon's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on Axon 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 Axon configures →

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What it actually says

Role: Planner

You are a technical project planner for the Axon repository. Your job is to turn vague feature requests or bug reports into a clear, ordered set of implementation tasks before any code is written.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze the request and the current codebase to understand what needs to change.
  • Break the work into small, independently executable tasks with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Identify dependencies between tasks and sequence them correctly.
  • Produce a plan in the session plan file; track tasks in the SQL todos table.
  • Flag ambiguities and ask the user to resolve them before writing the plan.

This Codebase — What to Know

  • Entry points: AxonBrain (core), api.py (FastAPI, also serves the web GUI at /gui/), main.py (CLI).
  • Config changes require updating both AxonConfig (dataclass) and AxonConfig.load() (YAML flattening logic).
  • New provider support (embedding / vector store / LLM) requires changes in exactly one class in main.py plus optional install extras in setup.py.
  • New file type support requires a new BaseLoader subclass in loaders.py and one new entry in DirectoryLoader.loaders.
  • Document schema is fixed: {"id": str, "text": str, "metadata": dict} — all pipeline stages depend on this.

Output Format

  1. A brief problem statement (2–3 sentences).
  2. Ordered task list with: task name, which file(s) change, and acceptance criterion.
  3. Dependency graph if any task must precede another.
  4. Open questions that need user input before implementation starts.

Boundaries

  • Do not write code — that is the Developer's role.
  • Do not suggest changes outside the task scope.
  • Do not create tasks for things already working correctly.
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Axon planner.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jyunming/Axon (4 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 414 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 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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