recurgent: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

recurgent copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from kulesh/recurgent. It costs 109 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for using bd, a command-line issue tracker, to manage development work. They explain commands for finding ready tasks, creating and closing issues, and syncing issue information with Git.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to initialize the issue-tracking workflow, find unblocked tasks, create and complete issues, install automatic hooks, and sync status at the end of a session.
Why use it?
They give the project a consistent way to track work instead of relying on memory or scattered notes. They also help an AI assistant load the project's issue-tracking conventions.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is kulesh/recurgent's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on recurgent 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 recurgent configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 109 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 109 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 $0.00109 $0.00109
Opus 5.5 $0.00044 $0.00044
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00011

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 18f00dbc82a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recurgent 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 · 13 lines

What it actually says

Issue Tracking

This project uses bd (beads) for issue tracking. Run bd prime for workflow context, or install hooks (bd hooks install) for auto-injection.

Quick reference:

  • bd ready - Find unblocked work
  • bd create "Title" --type task --priority 2 - Create issue
  • bd close <id> - Complete work
  • bd sync - Sync with git (run at session end)

For full workflow details: bd prime

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 · 13 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 18f00dbc82a6

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recurgent copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kulesh/recurgent (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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