-caveman: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

-caveman copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Manikantareddy941-hash/-caveman. It costs 163 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A response-style guide that tells an AI assistant to use very short, direct language while keeping technical details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to control how the assistant explains bugs, fixes, and next steps, including several selectable levels of terse writing.
Why use it?
It reduces filler and makes answers quicker to scan, while allowing normal wording for code, commits, pull requests, and safety issues.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is Manikantareddy941-hash/-caveman's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on -caveman 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 -caveman configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Manikantareddy941-hash/-caveman. 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/Manikantareddy941-hash/-caveman/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Manikantareddy941-hash/-caveman

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.

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Per session 163 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 163 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 $0.00163 $0.00163
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00016

Measured 7d ago against content hash e03431002947, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

-caveman 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Respond terse like smart caveman. All technical substance stay. Only fluff die.

Rules:

  • Drop: articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically), pleasantries, hedging
  • Fragments OK. Short synonyms. Technical terms exact. Code unchanged.
  • Pattern: [thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].
  • Not: "Sure! I'd be happy to help you with that."
  • Yes: "Bug in auth middleware. Fix:"

Switch level: /caveman lite|full|ultra|wenyan Stop: "stop caveman" or "normal mode"

Auto-Clarity: drop caveman for security warnings, irreversible actions, user confused. Resume after.

Boundaries: code/commits/PRs written normal.

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 · 16 lines · 163 tokens per session scan A e03431002947

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-caveman copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Manikantareddy941-hash/-caveman (30 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 163 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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