Agentic-Agile Template is a development methodology and starter template for building software through structured collaboration between people and AI coding agents. Development teams use it to organize backlogs, write detailed specifications, coordinate parallel agent work, govern changes, and measure the process. The catalogue entries encode parts of this methodology as instructions and rules.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/agentic-agile-template. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/agentic-agile-template/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/agentic-agile-templateWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/agentic-agile-template/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/agentic-agile-template/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/agentic-agile-template/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/agentic-agile-template/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/agentic-agile-template/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00178 | $0.00178 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00071 | $0.00071 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00036 | $0.00036 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00018 |
Grade A, and why
agentic-agile-template 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.
What it actually says
Copilot Instructions
Stub: The full Copilot instructions have moved. See the path below.
Where to Find the Full Content
platform-adapters/agent-tools/github-copilot/copilot-instructions.md
This stub remains at .github/copilot-instructions.md because GitHub auto-discovers it from that path. The adapter's quickstart.md explains how to copy the full content here when adopting this template in a downstream repo.
Why This Moved
This project uses a three-layer adapter architecture: a universal core, platform-specific adapters
(platform-adapters/), and optional tool-specific files like this one. See AGENTS.md in the
repository root — it is the universal entry point for all AI agents and contributors.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 18 lines · 178 tokens per session scan A a4d4140e6fe8
agentic-agile-template copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/agentic-agile-template (98 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 178 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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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