react-starter-kit: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

react-starter-kit copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from kriasoft/react-starter-kit. It costs 29 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository-specific instructions for the kriasoft/react-starter-kit project. They require reading AGENTS.md files before changing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding safe changes in the repository by making the agent inspect root and subdirectory AGENTS.md files first.
Why use it?
They give a coding agent the project's context, conventions, and architecture before it edits files.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is kriasoft/react-starter-kit's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on react-starter-kit 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 react-starter-kit configures →

About the project

React Starter Kit is a full-stack monorepo template for building SaaS web applications with React, TypeScript, tRPC, and Cloudflare Workers. A monorepo keeps related applications and packages in one repository, while the template provides frontend, backend, authentication, billing, database, and development-tool foundations. The catalogue instructions, skills, and command help developers work with this starter kit.

kriasoft/react-starter-kit · 23,707 stars · on GitHub · reactstarter.com

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to kriasoft/react-starter-kit. 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/kriasoft/react-starter-kit/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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README.md
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 29 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 29 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 $0.00029 $0.00029
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00012
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00006
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00003

Measured 2mo ago against content hash cf03128b427d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

react-starter-kit 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 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 2 lines

What it actually says

Read AGENTS.md in the repository root and any subdirectory AGENTS.md files for project context, conventions, and architecture details before making changes.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 2 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A cf03128b427d

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react-starter-kit copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kriasoft/react-starter-kit (23,707 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session, about $0.0001 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.

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