multiagent-template copilot-instructions.md

Instructions for a workspace where several coding agents follow a shared pipeline: planning, building, testing, verification, and release. They define the workspace layout and the responsibilities of an orchestrator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when coordinating multi-agent development, running a feature or bug-fix workflow, locating project documentation, or deciding whether to act as an orchestrator, expert, or advisor.
Why use it?
They give multiple agents a common process and clarify when to run the full pipeline versus answering as a single specialist. This reduces confusion about roles and handoffs.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/neftedollar/multiagent-template/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Neftedollar/multiagent-template

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 744 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 744 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5 $0.00372 $0.00372
Sonnet 5 $0.00149 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00074 $0.00074

Measured 3d ago against content hash 24add6016e61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

multiagent-template 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 3d 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.

tools/setup-cli/Templates/providers/copilot/.github/copilot-instructions.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{{PROJECT_NAME}} — Multi-Agent Workspace

{{PROJECT_DESCRIPTION}}

Founder: {{FOUNDER}}. Team: AI agents. Phase: {{PHASE}}.

This file is automatically injected into every GitHub Copilot context in this workspace.


Workspace structure

~/{{PROJECT_NAME}}/
├── code/{{PROJECT_NAME}}/   ← main code repo (has its own CLAUDE.md)
├── docs/
│   ├── process.md           ← pipeline operational manual (source of truth)
│   ├── role-capabilities.md ← role capability index
│   └── workflows/           ← pipeline specs (WORKFLOW-*.md)
├── .github/
│   └── copilot-instructions.md  ← this file

How to work in this repo

Always read:

  • This file (already loaded)
  • code/{{PROJECT_NAME}}/CLAUDE.md — architecture, build, tests (when working with code)

Operating modes:

If asked to... Mode What to do
"Act as orchestrator / run <task>" Orchestrator Read docs/process.md, execute pipeline
"You are the [role]" Single Expert Answer as that role, no pipeline
General question Advisor Help, suggest next step

Multi-agent pipeline

PLAN → BUILD → TEST → VERIFY → SHIP

5 types: feature, bugfix (skip PLAN), infra, content, spike (PLAN only).

Each step has a gate: APPROVED / NEEDS WORK (reason). Retry: 3× → helper → 2× → human escalation.

Orchestrator role

When acting as Orchestrator:

  • Never write code — always delegate to the appropriate specialist role
  • Select roles dynamically from docs/role-capabilities.md — don't hardcode assignments
  • Validate each step before proceeding
  • Deliver work as a PR (never merge directly)

Escalate to human only for:

  • Public-facing content approval
  • API-breaking architecture decisions
  • Infrastructure with cost impact
  • 5+ consecutive failures

Specialist roles

Layer Roles
Strategy product-manager, product-trend-researcher
Management orchestrator, testing-reality-checker, specialized-workflow-architect
Engineering engineering-software-architect, engineering-backend-architect, engineering-frontend-developer, engineering-code-reviewer, engineering-devops-automator, engineering-security-engineer
Design design-ux-researcher, design-ui-designer
GTM specialized-developer-advocate, engineering-technical-writer, marketing-content-creator

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 3d ago First seen · 85 lines · 744 tokens per session scan A 24add6016e61

Subscribe to this mod's changes

multiagent-template copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Neftedollar/multiagent-template (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 744 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 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 2026-08-31.

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