apm changelog.instructions.md

Instructions for keeping a changelog, a file that records notable project changes, using Keep a Changelog and Semantic Versioning conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Add one concise entry for code, test, documentation, or dependency changes, then move unreleased entries into a versioned release section.
Why use it?
It makes releases and pull requests easier to understand by requiring consistent sections, dates, change types, and references.

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/microsoft/apm/changelog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/apm

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 273 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 273 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 $0.00273 $0.00273
Opus 5 $0.00137 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00055 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1e51ec4c74e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apm changelog.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 2d 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/changelog.instructions.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Changelog Format

This project follows Keep a Changelog and Semantic Versioning.

Structure

  • New entries go under ## [Unreleased].
  • Released versions use ## [X.Y.Z] - YYYY-MM-DD.
  • Group entries by type: Added, Changed, Deprecated, Removed, Fixed, Security.

Entry format

  • One line per PR: concise description ending with (#PR_NUMBER).
  • Credit external contributors inline: — by @username (#PR_NUMBER).
  • Combine related PRs into a single line when they form one logical change: (#251, #256, #258).
  • Use backticks for code references: commands, file names, config keys, classes.

Rules

  • Every merged PR that changes code, tests, docs, or dependencies must have a changelog entry.
  • Do NOT include version-bump or release-machinery PRs (e.g., "chore: bump to vX.Y.Z").
  • When releasing, move Unreleased entries into a new versioned section — never delete them.
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. 2d ago First seen · 28 lines · 273 tokens per session scan A 1e51ec4c74e8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apm changelog.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/apm (3,687 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 273 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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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