RulePort: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/project-standards.instructions.md

RulePort project-standards.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from lewiesnyder/RulePort. It costs 226 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Shared project instructions covering reference documents, predefined tasks, commit names, documentation, and file organization.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when starting project tasks, choosing a specification, writing Conventional Commits, changing user interactions, or adding project files.
Why use it?
They give contributors common standards for planning work, naming commits, updating documentation, and placing new files.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to lewiesnyder/RulePort. 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/lewiesnyder/RulePort/main/.github/instructions/project-standards.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lewiesnyder/RulePort

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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RulePort project-standards.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.

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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/instructions/project-standards.instructions.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Project Standards

Primary Reference Documents

ALWAYS refer to:

  • specifications/SPEC_CONSTITUTION.md - Project-wide standards

Tasks

Predefined tasks can be found in the ./specifications/tasks dir. Use these when crafting features and planning your work. You will be told which task to pick up.

Commit Protocol

  • Use Conventional Commits format: type(scope): subject.
    • Types: feat, fix, docs, refactor, test, chore.
    • Example: feat(sync): add support for --target flag

Documentation

  • Keep README Updated: Any change to a user's interaction with ruleport must be reflected in README.md.
  • Self-Documenting Code: Complex logic in sync scripts must have comments explaining the "why", not just the "how".

File Organization

  • New features should be modular.
  • Do not create files in the root directory unless they are critical configuration or entry points.
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 · 26 lines · 226 tokens per session scan A 19604c34d4d8

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RulePort project-standards.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository lewiesnyder/RulePort (2 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 226 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 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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