Graph-It-Live: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

Graph-It-Live copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from magic5644/Graph-It-Live. It costs 166 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A VS Code-specific instruction adapter for the Graph-It-Live repository. It tells the agent to use the main repository rules and only load extra rules that apply to the files or task.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for routing repository and path-specific instructions during Graph-It-Live work, especially architecture questions and code edits.
Why use it?
It keeps the agent from loading unrelated guidance and tells it to stop when instruction files conflict instead of choosing silently.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is magic5644/Graph-It-Live's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on Graph-It-Live 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 Graph-It-Live configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to magic5644/Graph-It-Live. 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/magic5644/Graph-It-Live/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magic5644/Graph-It-Live

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 166 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 166 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00166 $0.00166
Opus 5.5 $0.00066 $0.00066
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00017

Measured 22d ago against content hash eefbc65926d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Graph-It-Live 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 22d 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 · 8 lines

What it actually says

Graph-It-Live Copilot Adapter

Use repository-wide rules from AGENTS.md. VS Code also discovers path-scoped rules in .claude/rules/; apply only files matching current work or task routing table.

Keep context lean: do not load every rule preemptively. For any exploration involving .js, .jsx, .cjs, .mjs, .ts, .tsx, .cts, or .mts, use Graph-It-Live MCP tools first, or graph-it after graph-it scan; only then inspect source directly to verify details or edit. For edits, read exact conditional rule named by AGENTS.md, then inspect relevant source.

VS Code does not guarantee ordering between combined instruction files. If loaded rules conflict, stop and report conflict instead of choosing arbitrarily.

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. 22d ago Changed · +37 tokens per session eefbc65926d2
  2. 23d ago Changed · +15 tokens per session 37bd6257e624
  3. 27d ago First seen · 8 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 2d2a964c7bee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Graph-It-Live copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository magic5644/Graph-It-Live (55 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-11.

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