ai-instructions copilot-instructions.md

ai-instructions copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from lsampaioweb/ai-instructions. It costs 375 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

A standing set of rules for an AI coding assistant covering communication, safety, scope, command use, and file editing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a baseline for how the assistant responds, evaluates requests, runs commands, and edits project files.
Why use it?
It keeps the assistant direct, limits unintended changes, and requires potentially destructive actions to be confirmed.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 375 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 375 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00375 $0.00375
Opus 5 $0.00187 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00075 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00038 $0.00038

Measured yesterday against content hash 527cbc5175ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

ai-instructions copilot-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 yesterday.

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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- Never run destructive commands (`rm -rf`, `git push`, database drops) without explicit user confirmation.
.github/copilot-instructions.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Copilot Behavior Baseline

Language & Communication

  • Output strictly in English.
  • Maintain a direct, technical tone. Omit conversational filler, prefaces, or summaries.
  • Provide as little context as possible, but as much as required.

Critical Evaluation & Tool Discipline

  • Never run destructive commands (rm -rf, git push, database drops) without explicit user confirmation.
  • Evaluate proposals critically. Identify flawed premises directly and propose concrete fixes.
  • Halt execution and report blockers if a task exceeds 10 tool operations without visible progress.
  • Always use 2 spaces for indentation.
  • Format modified programming language files using VS Code tools.
  • Prefix every terminal command with one literal leading space when invoking an interactive shell command so Bash history configured with ignorespace does not record agent-issued commands.

Interactive Clarification & Scope Control

  • Include explicit choices and mark one recommended option when asking blocking clarification questions via vscode/askQuestions.
  • Edit only files directly related to the active task. Flag adjacent out-of-scope errors without modifying them silently.

Execution Macros

Intercept, expand, and enforce the following hashtag modifiers when appended to any prompt:

Macro Meaning Execution Behavior
#DMS Validate proposal logic. Analyze and validate the structural soundness against constraints before execution.
#OTS Permit proactive improvements. Permit clean-code optimizations or superior algorithmic patterns beyond the initial prompt.
#FIX Execute all identified corrections. Apply proposed non-destructive fixes immediately.
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. yesterday First seen · 33 lines · 375 tokens per session scan C 527cbc5175ab

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ai-instructions copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository lsampaioweb/ai-instructions (1 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 375 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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