Awesome-Prompt-Engineering: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/link-and-source-quality.instructions.md

Awesome-Prompt-Engineering link-and-source-quality.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from natnew/Awesome-Prompt-Engineering. It costs 274 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for judging whether links and information sources are trustworthy, current, relevant, and durable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or reviewing resources, especially documentation, research papers, repositories, and technical articles.
Why use it?
It helps prevent weak, promotional, broken, or secondary sources from being presented as reliable references.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is natnew/Awesome-Prompt-Engineering's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on Awesome-Prompt-Engineering 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 Awesome-Prompt-Engineering configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to natnew/Awesome-Prompt-Engineering. 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/natnew/Awesome-Prompt-Engineering/main/.github/instructions/link-and-source-quality.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/natnew/Awesome-Prompt-Engineering

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 274 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 274 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 $0.00274 $0.00274
Opus 5 $0.00137 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00055 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured 8d ago against content hash d765892e30b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Awesome-Prompt-Engineering link-and-source-quality.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 8d 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/instructions/link-and-source-quality.instructions.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Every listed resource should point to a credible, durable source. Use these checks when adding or reviewing an entry.

Prefer canonical, durable sources

  • Official documentation, the primary research paper, the project's GitHub repository, or a substantial technical write-up.
  • A stable project page that is likely to remain available and maintained.
  • HTTPS only.

Treat with caution or avoid

  • Thin landing pages with little real content.
  • Affiliate-style, referral, or paywalled pages presented as documentation.
  • Pages making unverifiable claims, or heavy on self-promotion.
  • Generic, AI-generated content with no clear author or authority.
  • Mirrors, aggregators, or package-registry pages where a canonical repository or doc exists.

Quick credibility check

  • Does the resource appear actively maintained and current?
  • Is it clearly relevant to prompt engineering, context engineering, or AI agents?
  • Is it technically useful to a real practitioner, rather than introductory filler that duplicates existing entries?
  • Does the link resolve, and does it point to the most authoritative version of the source?

If a source is weak but the underlying resource is worthwhile, prefer suggesting a stronger canonical link over declining outright.

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. 8d ago First seen · 37 lines · 274 tokens per session scan A d765892e30b6

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Awesome-Prompt-Engineering link-and-source-quality.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository natnew/Awesome-Prompt-Engineering (109 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 274 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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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