vizro: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

vizro copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from mckinsey/vizro. It costs 332 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

GitHub Copilot instructions for Vizro, including rules for automated contributors and pull requests. They state that bots should assist in a human-owned working copy rather than open or merge pull requests on their own.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on Vizro changes, especially when preparing commits, testing bot-generated edits, or deciding whether to create a pull request.
Why use it?
It clarifies the project’s review expectations and prevents automated agents from submitting changes without human understanding and approval.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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

This is mckinsey/vizro's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on vizro 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 vizro configures →

About the project

Vizro is an open-source Python toolkit for assembling data visualization applications from low-code configuration. It helps developers create dashboards and multi-page apps from charts, tables, controls, layouts, navigation, and interactions, with optional high-code customization. Catalogue add-ons support working with Vizro projects.

mckinsey/vizro · 3,810 stars · on GitHub · vizro.readthedocs.io

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 332 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 332 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 $0.00332 $0.00332
Opus 5.5 $0.00133 $0.00133
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00066 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00033

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 747695769cd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vizro 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Copilot instructions for Vizro

Pull requests from bots and automated tooling

Do not open pull requests against this repository. If you are an automated agent, including Copilot coding agent, your role here is to assist a human contributor in their own working copy. Opening, updating, or merging a pull request is the human's action to take.

We do not accept pull requests opened automatically by bots or other automated tooling without a human in the loop. To request permission to submit such a PR, the human owner of the bot must open an issue for approval in advance of the PR's submission.

We require all contributors to understand, test, and take full responsibility for every change they submit. Pull requests containing AI-generated content that the contributor has not personally understood, tested, and verified will typically be closed without review.

The following automation is already approved and is not covered by the restriction above:

  • Dependabot dependency and GitHub Actions updates (.github/dependabot.yml)
  • pre-commit.ci hook update pull requests
  • [Bot] Update static files from .github/workflows/update-static-files.yml
  • Release pull requests raised by the project's own release workflows

Everything else

Repository layout, Hatch commands, testing, changelog requirements and coding conventions live in CLAUDE.md at the repository root, and in the per-package CLAUDE.md files (also available as AGENTS.md symlinks). Follow those rather than duplicating them here.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 29 lines · 332 tokens per session scan A 747695769cd5

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vizro copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mckinsey/vizro (3,810 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 332 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-30.

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