drift: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/drift-context-routing.instructions.md

drift drift-context-routing.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from mick-gsk/drift. It costs 780 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A German-language routing guide that maps Drift project tasks to the instructions and skills that apply to them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Routing work to the correct policy, release, quality, security, and workflow instructions in a Drift repository.
Why use it?
It helps an agent choose the right project rules for tasks such as signal changes, scoring, output changes, and bug fixes.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is mick-gsk/drift's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on drift 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 drift configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mick-gsk/drift. 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/mick-gsk/drift/main/.github/instructions/drift-context-routing.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mick-gsk/drift

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 780 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 780 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 $0.00780 $0.00780
Opus 5.5 $0.00312 $0.00312
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00156 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00078 $0.00078

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 482d1234c1bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drift drift-context-routing.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/instructions/drift-context-routing.instructions.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kontext-Routing — Welche Regeln gelten wann?

Zweck: Nicht alle Instructions und Skills sind für jede Aufgabe gleich relevant. Diese Datei hilft dem Agenten, den Fokus auf die wichtigsten Regeln zu legen.

Diese Datei definiert kein eigenes Regelwerk. Sie ist ein Routing-Index und verweist auf die jeweils autoritativen Dateien.

Schneller Einstieg: Fuer kompakte Task-zu-Gate Zuordnung ohne vollstaendiges Routing nutze .github/instructions/drift-agent-quickref.instructions.md.

Routing-Tabelle

Aufgabentyp Primäre Instructions Relevante Skills Primärer Fokus
Signal-Arbeit (neues Signal, Heuristik-Änderung) drift-policy, drift-push-gates (Gate 2+7) drift-signal-development-full-lifecycle, drift-risk-audit-artifact-updates, drift-adr-workflow ADR-Pflicht, Audit-Pflicht, Precision/Recall
Scoring/Gewichte drift-policy (§6 Priorisierung) drift-adr-workflow ADR-Pflicht, Benchmark-Evidence
Output-Format drift-policy, drift-push-gates (Gate 7) drift-adr-workflow, drift-risk-audit-artifact-updates ADR-Pflicht, STRIDE-Update
Bugfix (fix:) drift-policy, drift-push-gates (Gate 3+8) drift-commit-push CHANGELOG, Tests, kein ADR nötig
Feature (feat:) drift-policy, drift-push-gates (Gate 2+3) drift-commit-push Feature-Evidence, Tests, CHANGELOG, STUDY.md
Refactoring drift-policy, drift-quality-workflow drift-commit-push Kein ADR nötig, Tests grün
Prompt/Instruction drift-policy, drift-prompt-engineering drift-agent-prompt-authoring Shared Partials, Modellunabhängigkeit, Discovery, Primitive-Wahl
PR-Review drift-quality-workflow (Stufe 4) drift-pr-review Review-Checkliste (.github/prompts/_partials/review-checkliste.md)
Release/Push drift-push-gates (alle Gates) drift-commit-push, drift-release Alle Gates prüfen, make check
Fixture/Test drift-policy drift-ground-truth-fixture-development Precision/Recall, Ground Truth
Dokumentation drift-policy (§13 Befund-Qualität) — Keine Gate-Pflicht außer Gate 8

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 1mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 780 tokens per session scan A 482d1234c1bc

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drift drift-context-routing.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mick-gsk/drift (16 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 780 tokens to every session, about $0.0031 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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