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CopilotStudioSamples: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

CopilotStudioSamples copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from microsoft/CopilotStudioSamples. It costs 1,283 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Contributor instructions for Microsoft Copilot Studio sample projects, documented with the Just the Docs Jekyll theme. They explain where new samples belong, how navigation metadata works, and what each sample README should contain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when adding a Copilot Studio sample, updating category navigation, or testing the documentation site locally.
Why use it?
They prevent new examples from being placed in the wrong category or appearing incorrectly in the documentation site.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot ✓ vendor

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is microsoft/CopilotStudioSamples's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on CopilotStudioSamples 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 CopilotStudioSamples configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is > This sample is deprecated. Use [replacement](../path/) instead..

not rated 808repo +1 8d ago A scan 1,283 tokens original MIT
View source ↗ microsoft/CopilotStudioSamples
About the project

microsoft/CopilotStudioSamples is a collection of samples and development artifacts for Microsoft Copilot Studio, a platform for creating conversational copilots and agents. Developers use it to study importable solutions, integrations, deployment guidance, MCP servers, and Microsoft Agents SDK examples. The catalogue entries provide instructions and an agent related to these samples.

microsoft/CopilotStudioSamples · 808 stars · on GitHub

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/CopilotStudioSamples. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/CopilotStudioSamples/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/CopilotStudioSamples

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,283 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,283 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01283 $0.01283
Opus 5.5 $0.00513 $0.00513
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00257 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00128 $0.00128

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 3ce811dfcaf3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

CopilotStudioSamples 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 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CopilotStudioSamples — Contributor Instructions

This repo uses Just the Docs (Jekyll theme) to generate a documentation site with sidebar navigation and full-text search.

Adding a New Sample

  1. Create a folder under the right category: authoring/, extensibility/, ui/, contact-center/, sso/, testing/, guides/, infrastructure/
  2. Add a README.md (exact casing) with YAML front matter:
---
title: My Sample           # Appears in sidebar nav
parent: Embed              # Must match parent page's title exactly
grand_parent: UI           # Required for level 3 (grandchild) pages
nav_order: 8               # Numeric position among siblings
---
  1. Write the README with: description, prerequisites, setup instructions
  2. Update the parent category's ## Contents table to include the new sample
  3. Test locally: bundle install && bundle exec jekyll serve

Hierarchy Levels

Level Front matter Example
Category title, nav_order, has_children: true, has_toc: false ui/README.md
Subcategory title, parent, nav_order, has_children: true, has_toc: false ui/embed/README.md
Sample title, parent, grand_parent, nav_order ui/embed/servicenow-widget/README.md
Deep page nav_exclude: true, search_exclude: false Internal subfolders

Power Platform Solutions (authoring/solutions/)

Solutions follow the PnP format:

authoring/solutions/my-solution/
├── README.md       # Description, screenshots, install steps
├── assets/         # Screenshots and diagrams
├── solution/       # Packaged .zip file(s) ready to import
└── sourcecode/     # Unpacked source (pac solution unpack)

Front matter:

---
title: My Solution
parent: Solutions
grand_parent: Authoring
nav_order: 7
---

README should include: what it does, screenshots in assets/, import steps, connection references to configure, known issues. Update authoring/solutions/README.md Contents table after adding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 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. 2mo ago First seen · 176 lines · 1,283 tokens per session scan A 3ce811dfcaf3

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CopilotStudioSamples copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/CopilotStudioSamples (808 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,283 tokens to every session, about $0.0051 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 2026-08-30.

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