ACCESSIBILITY.md copilot-instructions.md

ACCESSIBILITY.md copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from mgifford/ACCESSIBILITY.md. It costs 549 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A GitHub Copilot instruction file that points to AGENTS.md as the repository's main instruction file. It explains how Copilot should use the canonical instructions and report when they are unavailable or conflict.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in repositories that support GitHub Copilot and keep their shared coding guidance in AGENTS.md. It is a compatibility entry point, not a replacement for that file.
Why use it?
It helps Copilot follow the same repository rules when a Copilot interface does not automatically load AGENTS.md.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/mgifford/accessibility.md/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mgifford/ACCESSIBILITY.md

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.

agentmods badge for ACCESSIBILITY.md copilot-instructions.md

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/mgifford/accessibility.md/copilot-instructions.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/mgifford/accessibility.md/copilot-instructions)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/mgifford/accessibility.md/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/mgifford/accessibility.md/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 549 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 549 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00549 $0.00549
Opus 5 $0.00275 $0.00275
Sonnet 5 $0.00110 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00055 $0.00055

Measured 3d ago against content hash 739e3abcd1a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ACCESSIBILITY.md 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 3d 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 · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Copilot Repository Instructions

Purpose and Usefulness

This file is a compatibility entry point for GitHub Copilot. The canonical, tool-neutral repository instructions are in AGENTS.md.

This file is useful because some GitHub Copilot surfaces load .github/copilot-instructions.md but do not automatically load AGENTS.md. It is not a second repository policy and must not repeat the content of AGENTS.md. See GitHub's current custom-instruction support matrix.

If the repository stops using GitHub Copilot, this file can be removed without moving its contents elsewhere.

Required Behavior

  1. Read and follow AGENTS.md. It defines repository scope, authority, workflow, validation, and completion requirements, including how to find a more specific AGENTS.md.
  2. Treat this file, applicable AGENTS.md files, and applicable path-specific instruction files as one instruction set. Report a material conflict rather than guessing.
  3. If the current Copilot surface cannot read AGENTS.md, report that the canonical repository instructions are unavailable instead of substituting rules from this file.

Copilot-Specific Notes

  • GitHub Copilot features and editors do not all support the same instruction file types. When the interface exposes loaded references or instructions, confirm that the applicable AGENTS.md was loaded. If it was not, add it to the context or report that the canonical instructions may not have applied.
  • Copilot code review uses instructions from the pull request's base branch. Changes to instruction files in the pull request itself should not be expected to affect that review.
  • Examples involving Copilot actions, agents, models, or preview features can become outdated. Verify current behavior in official GitHub Copilot documentation before recommending, copying, or enabling them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 55 lines · 549 tokens per session scan A 739e3abcd1a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ACCESSIBILITY.md copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mgifford/ACCESSIBILITY.md (71 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 549 tokens to every session, about $0.0027 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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