last30days-skill: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

last30days-skill copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from mvanhorn/last30days-skill. It costs 260 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Additional instructions for GitHub Copilot when working on the last30days project. They cover test style, pull-request checks, release notes, protected vendor code, and continuous integration requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when generating tests, preparing pull requests, changing the research skill, or checking that pytest and ruff pass.
Why use it?
They make Copilot follow the project's local rules instead of applying generic coding habits.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is mvanhorn/last30days-skill's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on last30days-skill 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 last30days-skill configures →

About the project

last30days-skill is an AI-agent research tool that searches sources including Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, Polymarket, and the web, then combines the results into a short summary. People use it to investigate current topics using signals such as engagement, transcripts, and market odds; the catalogue entries define how supported coding agents run the research workflow.

mvanhorn/last30days-skill · 65,589 stars · on GitHub

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mvanhorn/last30days-skill. 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/mvanhorn/last30days-skill/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 260 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 260 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 $0.00260 $0.00260
Opus 5.5 $0.00104 $0.00104
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00052 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00026

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 74eda97fa11a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

last30days-skill 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 1mo 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 · 39 lines

What it actually says

This file contains Copilot-specific additions. See AGENTS.md for the shared cross-tool governance layer.

Copilot-specific guidance

Test generation

  • Prefer unittest.TestCase for generated tests to match the existing test suite.
  • Mock external calls with unittest.mock.patch.

Pull request reminders

Before suggesting a pull request:

  • Confirm that pytest passes.
  • For changes that belong in the next release notes, add a changelog.d/<n>.<type>.md fragment (do not edit CHANGELOG.md or bump version manifests). See CONTRIBUTING.md / AGENTS.md § Changelog and releases and fill the PR template’s Agent disclosure + Relationship sections.
  • If changes were made anywhere under skills/last30days/, confirm the install copy has been refreshed with:

npx skills add . -g -y

Vendor exclusion zone

  • Never suggest changes to skills/last30days/scripts/lib/vendor/.
  • Treat skills/last30days/scripts/lib/vendor/ as a no-touch zone.

CI expectations

GitHub CI runs:

  • pytest
  • ruff

Generated changes should pass both before review is requested.

CLI examples

When suggesting CLI usage examples for safe local testing, default to:

--emit=compact --mock

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. 1mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 260 tokens per session scan A 74eda97fa11a

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last30days-skill copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mvanhorn/last30days-skill (65,589 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 260 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 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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