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.
npx agentmods add instructions/microsoft/agent-framework/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/agent-frameworkWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00211 | $0.00211 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00105 | $0.00105 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00042 | $0.00042 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00021 |
Grade A, and why
agent-framework 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 yesterday.
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.
What it actually says
GitHub Copilot Instructions
Microsoft Agent Framework - a multi-language framework for building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents.
Repository Structure
python/- Python implementation → see python/AGENTS.mddotnet/- C#/.NET implementation → see dotnet/AGENTS.mddocs/- Design documents and architectural decision records
Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
ADRs in docs/decisions/ capture significant design decisions and their rationale. They document considered alternatives, trade-offs, and the reasoning behind choices.
Templates:
adr-template.md- Full template with detailed sectionsadr-short-template.md- Abbreviated template for simpler decisions
When proposing architectural changes, create an ADR to capture options considered and the decision rationale. See docs/decisions/README.md for the full process.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 20 lines · 211 tokens per session scan A 0da50ae6b9e4
agent-framework copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/agent-framework (13,222 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 211 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 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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