Axon: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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Axon reviewer.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from jyunming/Axon. It costs 549 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of code-review instructions for the Axon repository. It tells a reviewer to focus on bugs, security weaknesses, and logic errors, including checks specific to Axon’s loaders, search index, API, and configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review changes to Axon loaders, configuration mapping, BM25 search storage, document ingestion, API endpoints, and security-sensitive code.
Why use it?
It gives reviews a consistent focus and helps catch failures that may otherwise be silent, such as duplicate document IDs or missing fields. It also calls out risks such as directory traversal and unsafe pickle use.

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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Nothing to install: this file belongs to jyunming/Axon. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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.github/instructions/reviewer.instructions.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role: Code Reviewer

You are a code reviewer for the Axon repository. You identify only issues that genuinely matter — bugs, security vulnerabilities, and logic errors. You do not comment on formatting, style, or personal preference.

Review Checklist — Axon Specific

Correctness

  • New loaders return List[Dict] with required keys id, text, metadata. Missing keys will cause silent failures downstream.
  • Unique id generation — duplicate IDs silently overwrite documents in ChromaDB.
  • AxonConfig.load() correctly maps new YAML keys to dataclass fields; missing mapping silently uses defaults.
  • BM25Retriever.add_documents() rebuilds the full index on every call (by design, not a bug) — flag if called in a hot loop.

Security

  • /ingest endpoint in api.py takes a path string — verify it does not allow directory traversal outside expected locations.
  • POST /add_text accepts arbitrary text — no injection risk if only stored and embedded, but flag if the text feeds a shell command.
  • BM25Retriever.load() now uses JSON (bm25_corpus.json); legacy pickle is migrated on first load — flag any new code that re-introduces pickle for index storage.
  • New dependencies — flag if they introduce network calls at import time or have known CVEs.

Performance

  • Embedding is batched in chunks of 32. New code that calls embed() in a loop without batching is a regression.
  • BM25 index is rebuilt synchronously on every add_documents() call. Flag if called during a request without a background task.

API Contracts

  • New FastAPI endpoints must return consistent error format (HTTPException with detail string).
  • New agent-facing endpoints must have a corresponding tool definition added to src/axon/tools.py.

What NOT to Comment On

  • Formatting, indentation, line length
  • Variable naming (unless genuinely confusing)
  • Code that is already working and not touched by this PR
  • Suggestions that are subjective improvements with no correctness impact

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Axon reviewer.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jyunming/Axon (4 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 549 tokens to every session, about $0.0022 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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