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.
npx agentmods add instructions/microsoft/openclaw-dev/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/openclaw-devWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00861 | $0.00861 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00430 | $0.00430 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00172 | $0.00172 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00086 | $0.00086 |
Grade A, and why
openclaw-dev 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Copilot instructions — openclaw-dev
This repo deploys OpenClaw as a secure, hosted AI assistant on Azure Container Apps, wired to Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models over a Managed Identity (no API keys), gated by Entra ID Easy Auth, with an optional Microsoft Teams channel. It is an alpha, single-tenant dev/test template.
When the user asks you to deploy, configure, operate, troubleshoot, connect to
Teams, or tear down this template, follow the playbook in
skills/openclaw-dev/SKILL.md.
Use this repo's own scripts, env-var contract, region list, and error catalog
instead of guessing.
Always-on rules
- Single entrypoint: drive everything through
./devclaw <cmd>(Windows:.\devclaw.cmd <cmd>), which wrapsazd. Fall back toazd up/azd deploy/azd downdirectly only if the wrapper isn't runnable. - Configuration is via
azd env set <KEY> <VALUE>beforedevclaw up— there is no.envfile to edit. Model/version/capacity are Bicep params ininfra/main.bicep(aiModelName/aiModelVersion/aiModelCapacity), not env vars. - Region:
AZURE_LOCATIONmust be in the allowed list ininfra/main.bicep. If the chosen region lacks the model SKU, setAZURE_OPENAI_LOCATIONseparately. - Teams is opt-in: default
devclaw upis browser-only — no Bot app registration, no Azure Bot, no Teams channel. To enable:azd env set ENABLE_TEAMS truethen re-rundevclaw up, or just rundevclaw teams(it prompts to enable and re-provisions). Don't suggest creating bot app registrations by default — they fail on restricted tenants. - Restricted subscriptions/tenants: before
devclaw up, set whichever of these apply:SERVICE_MANAGEMENT_REFERENCE=<smr-guid>(tenants that require it on new app regs),SKIP_STORAGE=true(subscriptions whose Azure Policy blocks shared-key storage — ACA file mounts need shared keys today; gateway token + sessions won't persist across replica restarts). ACR admin is already disabled; image pulls use the container app's managed identity. - Model scope: today this targets Azure OpenAI models only (default
gpt-5.4-mini). Do not claim Claude or other Foundry Models work today — they are "near future" scope. - Passwordless: the model is called keyless via Managed Identity
(
disableLocalAuth: true). Never add API keys or suggest key-based auth. - Secrets: never commit secrets.
_local/,.azure/,.azure-cli/,.azd-config/, the generatedteams/package/manifest.json, andteams/openclaw-teams-app.zipare gitignored — keep it that way. - Confirm destructive actions: before
devclaw down/azd down,az ad app delete, RBAC removal, or deleting state, state exactly what will be destroyed and get explicit user confirmation. Never pass--force/--no-promptto skip a confirmation the user hasn't given. - Cost: to pause, use
devclaw stop(scale to 0, $0, state kept) — notdown.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 54 lines · 861 tokens per session scan A ba381ac5fa5b
openclaw-dev copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/openclaw-dev (25 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 861 tokens to every session, about $0.0043 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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