spec-kit-template: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

spec-kit-template copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from lksnext-ai-lab/spec-kit-template. It costs 1,498 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository-wide instructions for an agent-based specification project, including its architecture, documentation locations, and rules for making changes. An agent-based system divides work among specialized software agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing specifications, documentation, agent behavior, or the project’s implementation.
Why use it?
They clarify which agent coordinates work, where specifications belong, and how to record missing information or pending work.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is lksnext-ai-lab/spec-kit-template's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on spec-kit-template 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 spec-kit-template configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to lksnext-ai-lab/spec-kit-template. 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/lksnext-ai-lab/spec-kit-template/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lksnext-ai-lab/spec-kit-template

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Sonnet 5 $0.00300 $0.00300
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Measured 7d ago against content hash af96ba83282e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-kit-template 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 7d 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 · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Instructions (Repo-wide)

Estas instrucciones aplican a todo el repositorio.
Además, existen instrucciones por ruta en .github/instructions/*.instructions.md que afinan el comportamiento según el área (SPEC / KIT / plataforma /.github / codebase).

Principios globales (siempre)

  1. Director-first (obligatorio en modo agente): el flujo se orquesta desde spc-spec-director, la única puerta de entrada visible al usuario. Los 10 subagentes operan con user-invocable: false y solo se activan por delegación del Director. El usuario expresa intención ("qué quiere"), no el procedimiento interno.
  2. No inventar: si falta información o evidencia, registrar OPENQ-### (o TODO-### si es trabajo pendiente) en los ficheros correspondientes.
  3. Cambios pequeños y diff-friendly: evitar reescrituras masivas y cambios cosméticos. Cambiar solo lo necesario.
  4. Sin operaciones destructivas: no usar comandos de shell/PowerShell/Bash para borrar/limpiar ni modificar cosas fuera del alcance pedido.
  5. Fuentes de verdad por zona:
    • docs/spec/** = especificación viva (principal) → es el destino por defecto de “actualiza la documentación”.
    • docs/kit/** = guía del sistema → NO modificar salvo petición explícita de cambiar el KIT. Si no se pide, proponer cambios como recomendación o registrar TODO en SPEC.
    • docs/spec/history/** = histórico → ignorar por defecto; solo se toca al cerrar iteración.
    • codebase/** (si existe) = fuente técnica as-is → solo lectura.
  6. Separación de IDs:
    • SPEC plan: P01..Pnn en docs/spec/01-plan.md
    • Implementación: T01..Tnn en docs/spec/spc-imp-*
    • No mezclar Txx dentro del plan de SPEC.
  7. Verificación externa solo si es necesaria para no inventar: si no se puede verificar, registrar OPENQ. Si se usa verificación externa, incluir ### Fuentes (URL + fecha + 1 línea) en el documento afectado.
  8. Edición directa obligatoria: para modificar archivos, usar siempre las herramientas de edición directa (edit/replace). Prohibido generar scripts (.ps1, .py, .sh, etc.) como vía para aplicar cambios a archivos del repo. Si por limitación técnica real la edición directa no es viable, el agente debe: (a) explicar al usuario por qué, (b) proponer el script como alternativa, (c) esperar confirmación antes de crearlo/ejecutarlo.
  9. Higiene de archivos temporales: si un agente crea cualquier archivo temporal o auxiliar (script, log, borrador, etc.) que no deba quedar en el repo, debe eliminarlo inmediatamente después de usarlo. Si hay duda sobre si el archivo debe persistir, razonar la situación, explicarla al usuario y pedir decisión.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 76 lines · 1,498 tokens per session scan A af96ba83282e

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spec-kit-template copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository lksnext-ai-lab/spec-kit-template (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,498 tokens to every session, about $0.0075 per session on Opus 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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