Use it to document project overviews, required tool versions, startup commands, configuration, API references, and access URLs.

It gives developers verifiable setup instructions and the key project information without filler or missing prerequisites.

How lsampaioweb/ai-instructions configures GitHub Copilot

Q: What is ai-instructions spring-boot-readme.instructions.md?

A set of rules for writing useful README files for Spring Boot projects. A README is the project guide that explains what the software does and how to run and configure it.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to lsampaioweb/ai-instructions. 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/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions/main/.github/instructions/spring-boot-readme.instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions/spring-boot-readme/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions/spring-boot-readme)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions/spring-boot-readme"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions/spring-boot-readme/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions/spring-boot-readme"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/lsampaioweb/ai-instructions/spring-boot-readme.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 590 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 590 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00590	$0.00590
Opus 5.5	$0.00236	$0.00236
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00118	$0.00118
Haiku 4.5	$0.00059	$0.00059

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 66bd6182fe35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-instructions spring-boot-readme.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 1mo 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/instructions/spring-boot-readme.instructions.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spring Boot README Contract

These rules apply to the root README.md of an application repository. A deployable app must ship one. Do not restate pom, configuration, or API design contracts here—link to behavior only when the README must tell a human how to run the app.

Required structure

Every real application README.md includes these sections, in this order:

Title — project name as an H1.
Purpose — one short sentence stating what the application does.
Overview — a short bullet list (typically 3–7 items) of the main capabilities that exist in the code (not aspirational features).
Prerequisites — runtime and tools actually required (for example Java version, Maven, PostgreSQL, Docker when used).
Configuration — environment variables and important settings by name. Never commit real secrets; show placeholders or local-only examples clearly labeled as local development.
Run — commands for the development and production profiles (full profile names; never dev/prod).
Access — primary URLs (API base path, Actuator health, Swagger UI when the app exposes it).
Tests — how to run tests (mvn test) and any environment-dependent caveats. When k6 scripts exist, also document the k6 CLI and k6 run (k6 contract).
API summary — brief endpoint list or pointer to OpenAPI/Swagger. Keep this short; do not paste a full OpenAPI document into the README.

Optional footer: Created by (or equivalent attribution).

Writing rules

Prefer concrete commands, paths, ports, and env var names over marketing prose.
Document only features that exist in the repository.
Keep the Overview factual; do not invent JPA, OAuth, or other stacks that the project does not use.
Use the same profile and port conventions as the configuration contract.
When SQL/DDL is DBA-owned, say so briefly instead of implying the app migrates the schema at startup (JDBC contract).

Forbidden

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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.

1mo ago Changed · -9 lines · -363 tokens per session 66bd6182fe35
1mo ago Changed · +23 lines · +410 tokens per session 5d38385b1a5a
2mo ago First seen · 43 lines · 543 tokens per session scan A e55488901137

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ai-instructions spring-boot-readme.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository lsampaioweb/ai-instructions (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 590 tokens to every session, about $0.0024 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 2026-09-03.

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