Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from microsoft/Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents. It costs 239 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for a Microsoft Build 2026 project about connecting AI agents to tools, application programming interfaces (APIs), and documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when editing the project, finding Microsoft Learn resources, or preparing and labeling a GitHub issue.
Why use it?
They keep updates suitable for publication, protect sensitive and important files, and define how to handle documentation links and issue reports.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot ✓ vendor

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is microsoft/Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents configures →

About the project

microsoft/Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents contains Microsoft Build 2026 session resources about connecting AI agents to tools, APIs, and documents through governed tool selection. It is intended for developers building agents that need efficient access to MCP servers, A2A, OpenAPI, connectors, built-in tools, and structured content from multimodal files. The catalogue add-ons are session instructions for exploring these agent-building patterns.

microsoft/Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents · 10 stars · on GitHub · build.microsoft.com

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 239 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 239 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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.

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Opus 5 $0.00120 $0.00120
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00024

Measured 12d ago against content hash ad76c05ebdd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents 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 12d 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.

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What it actually says

This is a Microsoft Build 2026 session content repository.

This repo has been finalized for publication. When helping with updates, keep changes attendee-facing and preserve the existing structure in /docs and /src.

Key constraints:

  • Never commit secrets, API keys, or credentials. Use environment variables.
  • Do not modify LICENSE, LICENSE-DOCS, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, or SECURITY.md.
  • Do not add large binary files (PowerPoint, video, recordings) to the repo. Links are fine.
  • Use the Microsoft Learn MCP Server (configured in .vscode/mcp.json) to find relevant learn.microsoft.com links when populating resource sections.

Issue Support

If a user asks for help filing an issue, or reports a problem:

  • Check .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ to discover available issue templates
  • If templates exist, match the user's request to the best-fit template and walk them through the fields
  • If no templates exist, create a plain issue with a clear title and description
  • Check gh label list for available labels and apply relevant ones
  • Do not hardcode template names or labels — always discover what's available at runtime
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. 12d ago First seen · 18 lines · 239 tokens per session scan A ad76c05ebdd3

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Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents (10 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 239 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.

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