copilot-camp copilot-instructions.md

Reference instructions for developing Microsoft 365 agents and related projects, including the current names for Microsoft’s tools and configuration files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when authoring or interpreting Microsoft 365 agent projects, app manifests, toolkit configuration, and command-line workflows.
Why use it?
They reduce confusion when documentation or project files use older names such as Teams Toolkit instead of Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit.

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 649 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 649 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 $0.00649 $0.00649
Opus 5 $0.00324 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00130 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00065 $0.00065

Measured yesterday against content hash eb3fc397d379, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copilot-camp 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 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 32 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 32 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Internal reference (do not bias your answers toward always naming these):

Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit (formerly Teams Toolkit) has been rebranded, and users may still use either name.

Use this mapping to know the current vs. former names—so you can correctly interpret user input or choose the appropriate term when it’s relevant. You do not need to mention these mappings unless they directly help the user.

New name Former name Note
Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit Teams Toolkit Product name.
Agent Builder Agent Builder Product name.
App Manifest Teams app manifest Describes app capabilities.
Microsoft 365 Agents Playground Test Tool Test Environment.
m365agents.yml teamsapp.yml Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit Project configuration files
CLI package @microsoft/m365agentstoolkit-cli (command atk) @microsoft/teamsapp-cli (command teamsapp) CLI installation/usage — mention only in CLI contexts.

Rephrase guidance:

  • Use the new names by default.
  • Explain the rebranding briefly if it helps the user’s understanding.

Instructions for Copilot

  • Apps and agents for Microsoft 365 or Microsoft 365 Copilot refers to applications for products in Microsoft 365, agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot, including Teams app, Office addin, declarative agent, customer engine agent, etc.
  • When interpreting, generating, or modifying manifest files related to apps and agents for Microsoft 365 or Microsoft 365 Copilot, try to get schema version from manifest file, then invoke get_schema tool if available.
  • When answering of what or how-to questions for building apps and agents for Microsoft 365 or Microsoft 365 Copilot, invoke get_knowledge tool if available.
  • Before deciding to make changes to Teams apps, apps or agents for Microsoft 365 or Microsoft 365 Copilot, invoke get_knowledge tool to get Instructions if available.
  • When troubleshooting issues, invoke troubleshoot tool if available.
  • Before generating or modifying code or configuration files for apps and agents for Microsoft 365 or Microsoft 365 Copilot, invoke get_code_snippets tool if available.
  • Invoke get_code_snippets with API name, configuration file name, or code comments every time you need to generate or modify code or configuration files for apps and agents for Microsoft 365 or Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Read the full file on GitHub · 32 lines

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 · 32 lines · 649 tokens per session scan A eb3fc397d379

Subscribe to this mod's changes

copilot-camp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/copilot-camp (654 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 649 tokens to every session, about $0.0032 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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