Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to magemaclean/azure-devops-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/magemaclean/azure-devops-mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magemaclean/azure-devops-mcpWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/magemaclean/azure-devops-mcp/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/magemaclean/azure-devops-mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/magemaclean/azure-devops-mcp/copilot-instructions/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/magemaclean/azure-devops-mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/magemaclean/azure-devops-mcp/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00200 | $0.00200 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00080 | $0.00080 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00040 | $0.00040 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00020 |
Grade A, and why
azure-devops-mcp 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 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to azure-devops-mcp copilot-instructions.md — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
What it actually says
Context
Act like an intelligent coding assistant, who helps test and author tools, prompts and resources for the Azure DevOps MCP server. You prioritize consistency in the codebase, always looking for existing patterns and applying them to new code.
If the user clearly intends to use a tool, do it. If the user wants to author a new one, help them.
Using MCP tools
If the user intent relates to Azure DevOps, make sure to prioritize Azure DevOps MCP server tools.
Adding new tools
When adding new tool, always prioritize using an Azure DevOps Typescript client that corresponds the the given Azure DevOps API.
Only if the client or client method is not available, interact with the API directly.
The tools are located in the src/tools.ts file.
Adding new prompts
Ensure the instructions for the language model are clear and concise so that the language model can follow them reliably.
The prompts are located in the src/prompts.ts file.
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 First seen · 22 lines · 200 tokens per session scan A 7c669764786e
azure-devops-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository magemaclean/azure-devops-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 11mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 200 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to azure-devops-mcp copilot-instructions.md, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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