Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kasuken/vscode-copilot-insightsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00835 | $0.00835 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00334 | $0.00334 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00167 | $0.00167 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00084 | $0.00084 |
Grade A, and why
Project Guidelines 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 2mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
GitHub Copilot Insights
- This repository is a VS Code extension for showing GitHub Copilot plan, quota, reset, history, and AI credit usage insights inside VS Code.
- Keep extension-host logic in
src/, with activation and command/view wiring insrc/extension.ts, Copilot data access insrc/api/, pure formatting/history/prediction/quota logic insrc/core/, and UI-specific code insrc/ui/. - The extension is bundled to
dist/extension.jswith esbuild. Extension tests compile TypeScript to the CommonJSout/tree.
Tech Stack
- Runtime: VS Code extension API
^1.107.0, UI extension host, Node.js-compatible extension code, and browser-based webviews. - Language: TypeScript targeting ES2022 with
module: Node16, strict type checking, and DOM library types for webview code. - Extension surfaces:
package.jsoncontributions for activity bar views, webviews, commands, settings, walkthroughs, localization, and theinsights_getCopilotQuotalanguage model tool. - UI: VS Code webview HTML/CSS/JavaScript in
src/ui/webview/andmedia/, VS Code theme variables, Codicons, and offline local assets. - Charts: Chart.js 4.x via the bundled UMD asset at
media/chart.umd.min.js. - Build tooling: npm scripts, esbuild for
dist/extension.js, TypeScript compiler for type checks and test emits, andscripts/copy-codicons.mjsfor static assets. - Quality and tests: ESLint 9 with typescript-eslint, Mocha-style extension tests through
@vscode/test-cliand@vscode/test-electron, plus@types/vscode,@types/node, and@types/mocha.
Code Style
- Make focused TypeScript changes that match nearby style and avoid broad rewrites or formatting churn.
- Preserve public command IDs, setting keys, view IDs, contribution IDs, exported types, and storage shapes unless the task explicitly requires a migration or breaking change.
- Prefer pure helpers in
src/core/for behavior that can be unit tested without the VS Code API. - Keep user-facing strings localizable through the existing package/l10n patterns when they are surfaced by VS Code or the extension UI.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 835 tokens per session scan A 212f2ad2a525
Project Guidelines is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights (38 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 835 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 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.
Other instructions, from other repositories
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).
next.js AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md
Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, cache eligibility and rollout and applying the notice (cutover).
langchain AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.
vscode copilot-instructions.md
Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).
deepseek-harness AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness, covering agents.md, pre-stable apis and released session data, repository layout, commands and host sandbox failures.