ZavaShop on AKS and Azure Container Apps is a hands-on lab for delivering a multi-agent retail supply-chain application from requirements through deployment. It demonstrates a team of six GitHub Copilot custom coding agents working across specifications, application code, MCP servers, tests, infrastructure, and CI. The catalogue entries define the agents, skills, and instructions used in that workflow.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot. 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/AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilotWrote 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/aks-lab-githubcopilot/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/aks-lab-githubcopilot/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/aks-lab-githubcopilot/agents-md/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/aks-lab-githubcopilot/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/aks-lab-githubcopilot/agents-md.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 | $0.01718 | $0.01718 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00687 | $0.00687 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00344 | $0.00344 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00172 | $0.00172 |
Grade A, and why
AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot AGENTS.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 2mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — House rules for AI coding agents
Inspired by
microsoft/agent-framework/python/AGENTS.md. Read this before you write any code in this repo — whether you are a human, GitHub Copilot, or the Copilot Coding Agent.
1. Project Context
This repository implements ZavaShop, a multi-agent retail supply-chain demo. It runs on AKS (long-lived orchestrator) and Azure Container Apps (event-driven specialist agents). Agents are built with Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) and the GitHub Copilot SDK Python provider.
Treat every change as production-style: typed, tested, observable.
1.1 How we build: GitHub Copilot Custom Agents
This repo is delivered through GitHub Copilot Custom Agents. Every code change flows through one of the six agents below. Each agent owns a slice of the repo and has its own tools, skills, and refusal rules. Invoke an agent by typing /<name> in Copilot Chat.
| Phase | Agent | Owns | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Requirements | requirements-analyst |
specs/*.md |
.github/agents/requirements-analyst.agent.md |
| MCP impl | mcp-builder |
src/mcp_servers/* |
.github/agents/mcp-builder.agent.md |
| Agent impl | agent-builder |
src/agents/<specialist>/* |
.github/agents/agent-builder.agent.md |
| Orchestration | orchestrator-architect |
src/agents/orchestrator/*, src/shared/*, docker-compose.yml |
.github/agents/orchestrator-architect.agent.md |
| Tests | test-author |
tests/** |
.github/agents/test-author.agent.md |
| Deploy | deploy-engineer |
infra/**, .github/workflows/** |
.github/agents/deploy-engineer.agent.md |
Workflow prompts that chain the agents live in .github/prompts/:
feature-from-issue.prompt.md— issue → spec → code → tests → PR → deploy.spec-to-code.prompt.md— drive an existing spec through code + tests.ship-it.prompt.md— roll the current SHA to ACR + ACA + AKS.
Shared, agent-agnostic knowledge lives in .github/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md (inspired by the agent-framework Python skills layout). Every agent lists which skills it must consult before writing code.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 104 lines · 1,718 tokens per session scan A 11ff0182bc24
AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot (10 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,718 tokens to every session, about $0.0069 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 2026-08-31.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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