github-copilot-superpowers copilot-instructions.md

A GitHub Copilot instruction file that records project-specific guidance for generating code or text suggestions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding workspace instructions and guardrails that Copilot uses when creating code or text completions.
Why use it?
It helps Copilot account for the repository's technology choices and conventions instead of producing generic suggestions.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 96 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 96 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00096 $0.00096
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00048
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00019
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00010

Measured 2d ago against content hash a7b92a3e4106, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-copilot-superpowers 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 2d 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 · 9 lines

What it actually says

Copilot Instructions

Add custom instructions for GitHub Copilot to use when generating code or text completions in this repository. Add guard rails to ensure Copilot follows specific guidelines relevant to this codebase.

Tech stack, conventions, and best practices for this repository should be captured here to help Copilot generate more accurate and context-aware suggestions.

See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/customization/custom-instructions#_generate-an-instructions-file-for-your-workspace

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. 2d ago First seen · 9 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A a7b92a3e4106

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-copilot-superpowers copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers (16 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.