What is project-nighthawk copilot-instructions.md?

Workspace instructions for creating fact-checked technical notes about Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Azure Kubernetes Service runs containerised applications, while Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a managed OpenShift platform.

Use them to research AKS or ARO, write technical reports in Markdown, cite sources, and work with the project’s research and fact-checking agents.

They provide a repeatable way to classify questions, research official sources, combine findings, and check reports for accuracy.

How microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk. 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/microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 513 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 513 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00513	$0.00513
Opus 5.5	$0.00205	$0.00205
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00103	$0.00103
Haiku 4.5	$0.00051	$0.00051

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 29868b1aeb8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-nighthawk 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 · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nighthawk Workspace Instructions

When working in this repository, you are helping to create deep technical notes about Azure Services and related technologies.

Using Nighthawk

For solution engineers: To generate a comprehensive, fact-checked technical report, use:

/Nighthawk <your question about AKS or ARO>

The orchestrator will automatically:

Classify your question (AKS vs ARO)
Research official GitHub repositories and Microsoft Learn
Synthesize findings into a comprehensive report
Fact-check all claims against sources
Deliver a validated report with source citations

Individual agents (for advanced usage):

@Nighthawk-Classifier - Classify a question
@Nighthawk-AKS-Researcher - Deep research on AKS
@Nighthawk-ARO-Researcher - Deep research on ARO
@Nighthawk-Synthesizer - Create report from research
@Nighthawk-FactChecker - Validate a report

Note Format

Your findings should be written in markdown format with relevant headings and subheadings. Leverage Mermaid diagrams where appropriate to illustrate complex concepts.

Write the notes in a way that is easy to understand for someone new to the topic, while still providing deep technical insights for experienced users.

File Naming and Location

Save your notes in a file named Nighthawk-$todaysDate-$subject.md in the notes/ directory, where $todaysDate is the current date and $subject is the topic/theme of the note. Update the notes as you discover new information, or when asked to add additional results to the topic.

Ensure to include references and links to the source materials you used to compile the notes.

Skills

The following skills are available to Nighthawk researcher agents:

nighthawk-local-repos — Required tool checklist, local repo paths, clone commands, and mandatory git pull procedure. Researcher agents must read this skill before every research run.
- File: .github/skills/Nighthawk-LocalRepos/SKILL.md
nighthawk-report-templates — Writing principles, three report templates (architecture / bug / guidance), Mermaid diagram guidelines, and file naming conventions. Synthesizer must read this skill before writing any report.
- File: .github/skills/Nighthawk-ReportTemplates/SKILL.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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.

2mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 513 tokens per session scan A 29868b1aeb8d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-nighthawk copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoftgbb/project-nighthawk (33 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 513 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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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