notebooklm-mcp: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

notebooklm-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from khengyun/notebooklm-mcp. It costs 9,324 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of coding instructions for the notebooklm-mcp project, a local server that connects coding agents with NotebookLM.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding refactors, enhancements, validation, and tests for the notebooklm-mcp project.
Why use it?
It gives agents project context and sets validation and testing expectations when changing or improving that server.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is khengyun/notebooklm-mcp's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on notebooklm-mcp 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 notebooklm-mcp configures โ†’

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to khengyun/notebooklm-mcp. 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/khengyun/notebooklm-mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/khengyun/notebooklm-mcp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 9,324 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 9,324 The same file โ€” it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file โ€” not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.09324 $0.09324
Opus 5 $0.04662 $0.04662
Sonnet 5 $0.01865 $0.01865
Haiku 4.5 $0.00932 $0.00932

Measured 9d ago against content hash 32b3b3b2c178, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebooklm-mcp copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories โ€” prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency โ€” 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/copilot-instructions.md ยท 972 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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 ยท 972 lines ยท 9,324 tokens per session scan A 32b3b3b2c178

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notebooklm-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository khengyun/notebooklm-mcp (84 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 9,324 tokens to every session, about $0.0466 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.

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