autogen copilot-instructions.md

Project instructions for Microsoft AutoGen, a Python framework for building applications with multiple AI agents. They cover setup, prerequisites, development practices, and quick validation checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on AutoGen, particularly for installing dependencies, following its Python workflow, and running fast checks.
Why use it?
They give a coding agent the repository-specific steps for preparing, changing, and checking the project.

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/autogen/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/autogen

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 2,174 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,174 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.02174 $0.02174
Opus 5 $0.01087 $0.01087
Sonnet 5 $0.00435 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00217 $0.00217

Measured yesterday against content hash b64a92953d70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autogen copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Install .NET 9.0 SDK: `wget https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh && chmod +x dotnet-install.sh && ./dotnet-install.sh --channel 9.0`
.github/copilot-instructions.md · 226 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday First seen · 226 lines · 2,174 tokens per session scan A b64a92953d70

Subscribe to this mod's changes

autogen copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/autogen (60,704 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 2,174 tokens to every session, about $0.0109 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.