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.
npx agentmods add instructions/kimiski33/awesome-copilot/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KIMISKI33/awesome-copilotWrote 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/kimiski33/awesome-copilot/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/kimiski33/awesome-copilot/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/kimiski33/awesome-copilot/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00830 | $0.00830 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00415 | $0.00415 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00166 | $0.00166 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00083 | $0.00083 |
Grade A, and why
awesome-copilot 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 5d 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.
This is a copy
95% identical to awesome-copilot copilot-instructions.md — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
The following instructions are only to be applied when performing a code review.
README updates
- The new file should be added to the
docs/README.<type>.md.
Prompt file guide
Only apply to files that end in .prompt.md
- The prompt has markdown front matter.
- The prompt has a
agentfield specified of eitheragent,ask, orPlan. - The prompt has a
descriptionfield. - The
descriptionfield is not empty. - The file name is lower case, with words separated by hyphens.
- Encourage the use of
tools, but it's not required. - Strongly encourage the use of
modelto specify the model that the prompt is optimised for. - Strongly encourage the use of
nameto set the name for the prompt.
Instruction file guide
Only apply to files that end in .instructions.md
- The instruction has markdown front matter.
- The instruction has a
descriptionfield. - The
descriptionfield is not empty. - The file name is lower case, with words separated by hyphens.
- The instruction has an
applyTofield that specifies the file or files to which the instructions apply. If they wish to specify multiple file paths they should formatted like'**.js, **.ts'.
Agent file guide
Only apply to files that end in .agent.md
- The agent has markdown front matter.
- The agent has a
descriptionfield. - The
descriptionfield is not empty. - The file name is lower case, with words separated by hyphens.
- Encourage the use of
tools, but it's not required. - Strongly encourage the use of
modelto specify the model that the agent is optimised for. - Strongly encourage the use of
nameto set the name for the agent.
Agent Skills guide
Only apply to folders in the skills/ directory
- The skill folder contains a
SKILL.mdfile. - The SKILL.md has markdown front matter.
- The SKILL.md has a
namefield. - The
namefield value is lowercase with words separated by hyphens. - The
namefield matches the folder name. - The SKILL.md has a
descriptionfield. - The
descriptionfield is not empty, at least 10 characters, and maximum 1024 characters. - The
descriptionfield value is wrapped in single quotes. - The folder name is lower case, with words separated by hyphens.
- Any bundled assets (scripts, templates, data files) are referenced in the SKILL.md instructions.
- Bundled assets are reasonably sized (under 5MB per file).
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 72 lines · 830 tokens per session scan A 36beffe5cac8
awesome-copilot copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository KIMISKI33/awesome-copilot (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 830 tokens to every session, about $0.0042 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to awesome-copilot copilot-instructions.md, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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