vscode-copilot-insights: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/repo-validation.instructions.md

Repo Validation Workflow is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights. It costs 265 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for compiling, linting, testing, and reviewing a VS Code extension.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing extension code or tests: run the relevant focused checks, use `npm run compile` for production validation, and compile tests when imported test logic changes.
Why use it?
They define the required validation commands and explain limitations of the Electron-based test harness, helping avoid incomplete verification.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on vscode-copilot-insights 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 vscode-copilot-insights configures →

Reuse

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.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights/main/.github/instructions/repo-validation.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 265 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 265 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00265 $0.00265
Opus 5 $0.00133 $0.00133
Sonnet 5 $0.00053 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00026

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3cb4ce9c8645, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Repo Validation Workflow 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 9d 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/repo-validation.instructions.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Repo Validation Workflow

  • Treat npm run compile as the required production validation gate for extension changes. It runs asset copying, tsc --noEmit, ESLint, and esbuild.
  • Run npm run compile-tests when changing tests or logic that extension tests import. It emits the CommonJS out/ tree used by the VS Code test harness.
  • Start with the narrowest relevant behavior check, then broaden only when the changed surface warrants it.
  • Remember that npm test uses @vscode/test-electron and can download a full VS Code build. If the Electron harness is blocked or too slow, run npm run compile and npm run compile-tests, then clearly report that extension-host behavior remains unverified.
  • Do not delete out/ while a watch or compiler task is running. Re-run npm run compile or stop the watcher before cleaning generated output.
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. 9d ago First seen · 13 lines · 265 tokens per session scan A 3cb4ce9c8645

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Repo Validation Workflow is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kasuken/vscode-copilot-insights (37 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 265 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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.