analyst-ai-pack: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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analyst-ai-pack copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack. It costs 704 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for AnalystAIPack, a collection of 118 read-only security skills for malware analysis, reverse engineering, and threat hunting. Malware analysis examines harmful software, reverse engineering studies how software works, and threat hunting searches for attacks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to search for, inspect, and run the matching security skill through the repository's commands.
Why use it?
They tell the coding agent to find and follow the relevant procedure instead of improvising, while keeping analysis read-only.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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

This is meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on analyst-ai-pack 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 analyst-ai-pack configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python tools/lint-skills.py --all.

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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analyst-ai-pack 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.

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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 · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AnalystAIPack — GitHub Copilot instructions

This workspace is AnalystAIPack, a library of 118 security skills for malware analysis, reverse engineering, and threat hunting. Each skill is a folder under skills/ containing a SKILL.md (procedure) and a runnable scripts/analyst.py (a static, read-only analysis tool).

How to help in this repo

  • When the user asks an analysis/hunting task, find the matching skill first instead of improvising. Discover skills with:
    • python tools/analyst-pack.py search <topic>
    • python tools/analyst-pack.py list [--subdomain malware-analysis|reverse-engineering|threat-hunting|lab-foundations]
    • python tools/analyst-pack.py show <skill-name>
  • Read the chosen skills/<name>/SKILL.md and follow its Workflow. Honor its When to Use and especially the Do not use boundary.
  • Run a skill's tool via: python tools/analyst-pack.py run <skill-name> -- <subcommand> <args> or directly python skills/<skill-name>/scripts/analyst.py <subcommand> <args>. Output is structured JSON — pass it forward to the next skill or into a report.

Safety rules (do not violate)

  • Never execute a malware sample. All scripts are static and read-only. Do not write code that runs, detonates, or connects to a sample's infrastructure.
  • Assume an isolated lab for any live-sample step; follow each skill's Safety & Handling.
  • Keep IOCs defanged in output (hxxp://, 1[.]2[.]3[.]4). The scripts already do this — preserve it.
  • No live samples in the repo (see .gitignore). Some scripts contain malware signature strings for detection; antivirus may flag the file text — that is static data, not behavior.

Authoring or editing a skill

Keep the repo green and follow the conventions:

  • Each skill needs: SKILL.md + scripts/analyst.py + references/api-reference.md + LICENSE.
  • Frontmatter: name (kebab == folder), description (ends with an "Activates for …" trigger), domain: cybersecurity, subdomain (one of the four), tags, version, author, license, and framework IDs (mitre_attack, d3fend, optional car).
  • Body sections in order: When to Use (with Do not use), Prerequisites, Safety & Handling (sample-handling skills), Workflow, Validation, Pitfalls, References.
  • Scripts are standard-library only (optional deps degrade gracefully) and never execute the sample. Validate with:

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analyst-ai-pack copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository meltedinhex/analyst-ai-pack (22 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 704 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 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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