idd-skill: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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idd-skill idd-discover.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from kurone-kito/idd-skill. It costs 9,291 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Instructions for the discover phase of IDD, a workflow for finding and selecting the next software issue to work on. They cover checking scope, finding orphan issues, selecting a candidate, and handing it to later suitability and claiming steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding the next eligible issue, handling an explicitly named issue, checking roadmap and scope rules, skipping held drafts, and passing a suitable issue to the claim process.
Why use it?
Issue queues can contain unsuitable, already-held, or incomplete work. These rules provide checks for selecting an issue safely before work begins.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is kurone-kito/idd-skill's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on idd-skill 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 idd-skill configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node scripts/select-desynced-index.mjs --token <session-token> --band-size <band-size>.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to kurone-kito/idd-skill. 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/kurone-kito/idd-skill/main/.github/instructions/idd-discover.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kurone-kito/idd-skill

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 9,291 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 9,291 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.09291 $0.09291
Opus 5.5 $0.03716 $0.03716
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01858 $0.01858
Haiku 4.5 $0.00929 $0.00929

Measured 2d ago against content hash 36455ec3a18c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

idd-skill idd-discover.instructions.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

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.github/instructions/idd-discover.instructions.md · 735 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 735 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IDD — Discover Phase (A0-T–A4)

Read this file to select the next issue, including explicit targets, roadmap-audit handoff, and A4.5/Claim routing.

With helpers, run first from docs/idd-helper-scripts.md for A0-C/A0-O/A3/A3.5/A4/A4.5; tables win if absent/disagrees. discover-viability-gate/discover-shared-file-overlap: --issue/--issues.

Abort conditions: A0-T, A1 (orphan-first/roadmap scope only — see A0), A3 (default; see decision tree). Early stop condition: A0-T, A1.5, A4, or A4.5 (no claim made — see below).

Authoring label guard

Use issueAuthoring.authoringLabelName (default: status:authoring) and issueAuthoring.authoringStaleAge (default: PT4H). The label marks held drafts and suppresses claims, so skip labeled issues. Unlabeled issues follow anchor logs; incomplete generations block. Only exact anchor/set/session release-complete gates release/guard; an absent label is not proof; release clears it.

The portable owner resolver defines these owner-protocol terms for every helper profile. For instructions-only, never infer membership from the label.

A0-T, A0-O, and A3 must treat a matching label as not startable. A0-T (step 1) stops before claim; A0-O and A3 filter the issue out. For each skipped issue, fetch the latest matching labeled timeline event. If the label age exceeds authoringStaleAge, emit:

Warning: Issue #N has carried the authoring label for {duration}; the authoring session may be stalled.

If the timestamp is unavailable, still skip the issue and report that the stale-authoring age could not be checked.

A0-C — Draft-carrier entry

Before A0-T, A0 and any claim, run the profile-selected discover-orphan-filter --draft-carriers (not under instructions-only). If it exits non-zero or prints no draftCarriers field, stop the run, report the exit status and stderr, and claim nothing. List draftCarriers.held carriers whose stale is true in the run report; releasing them is out of scope.

Read the full file on GitHub · 735 lines

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.

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idd-skill idd-discover.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kurone-kito/idd-skill (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 9,291 tokens to every session, about $0.0372 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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