Use them when maintaining or operating this Copilot agent setup, especially when handling subagents, user approvals, builds, tests, and other verification.

They reduce conflicts between repository rules and make the agent’s execution order and response requirements explicit.

How kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers configures GitHub Copilot

Q: What is github-copilot-superpowers copilot-agent.instructions.md?

Instructions for a GitHub Copilot agent setup, including which instruction files have priority and how work should be delegated, implemented, and checked.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers. 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/kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers/main/.github/instructions/copilot-agent.instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 2,285 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,285 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02285	$0.02285
Opus 5.5	$0.00914	$0.00914
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00457	$0.00457
Haiku 4.5	$0.00229	$0.00229

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cb30c0a8f32d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-copilot-superpowers copilot-agent.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 1mo 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/copilot-agent.instructions.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Agent Instructions

🎯 INSTRUCTION HIERARCHY

⚠️ subagents.instructions.md is the SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH (SSOT) and has HIGHEST PRIORITY.

Priority order when conflicts occur:

subagents.instructions.md (SSOT) - Orchestrator delegation rules, absolute restrictions, Context Package contract
copilot-agent.instructions.md (this file) - Developer runbook & quality standards
task-direction-approval.instructions.md - User approval for direction changes
taming-copilot.instructions.md - User-facing output format
Other domain-specific instructions

Core principle: Delegation > Direct Execution

📋 Execution Order vs Priority

Priority (INSTRUCTION HIERARCHY) = Which rule wins when there's a conflict Execution Order = What happens first in the workflow sequence

Execution Order (Workflow Sequence)

Sequential-thinking: Analyze problem (orchestrator executes directly - this is thinking, not I/O)
SSOT rules apply: All investigation I/O → delegate to subagent
Terminal verification: build/test/lint (orchestrator executes directly)

Note: Sequential-thinking is a thinking tool, not I/O. It runs BEFORE delegation rules apply.

⛔ MANDATORY RESPONSE TEMPLATE (EVERY REQUEST)

Execution order: Invoke Sequential-thinking → Display this template. See "DEVELOPER RUNBOOK - 6 PHASES" below for details.

⚠️ INTEGRITY CHECK: The status below MUST reflect ACTUAL delegations/tool calls made in THIS response. Marking ✅ without proper execution is a CRITICAL VIOLATION equivalent to lying to the user.

EVERY response MUST start with:

🛠️ **PREFLIGHT CHECK**
- [✅/❌] Sequential-thinking MCP: {Executed by orchestrator - reason}
- [✅/❌] **SSOT Tool Gate**: Check SSOT before every tool call
- [✅/⏭️] Delegation status: {Yes - task description / Skip - reason}
  - [✅/⏭️] Serena MCP: {Delegated via subagent / Skip - reason} [Context Package: .copilot/docs/X.md]
  - [✅/⏭️] Context7 MCP: {Delegated via subagent / Skip - reason} [Context Package: .copilot/docs/X.md]
  - [✅/⏭️] GitHub MCP: {Delegated via subagent / Skip - reason} [Context Package: .copilot/docs/X.md]

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 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.

1mo ago First seen · 227 lines · 2,285 tokens per session scan A cb30c0a8f32d

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github-copilot-superpowers copilot-agent.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers (17 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,285 tokens to every session, about $0.0091 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 2026-08-30.

Building agents copilot github

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 9,649 tokens

github-copilot-superpowers: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Borrowing it

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

Copilot Agent Instructions

🎯 INSTRUCTION HIERARCHY

📋 Execution Order vs Priority

Execution Order (Workflow Sequence)

⛔ MANDATORY RESPONSE TEMPLATE (EVERY REQUEST)

What this file has done since we first saw it

Other instructions, from other repositories

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

next.js AGENTS.md

vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md

langchain AGENTS.md

vscode copilot-instructions.md

deno copilot-instructions.md