astra: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

astra copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from nimelkot/astra. It costs 52 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Development instructions for Astra, a project that provides a command-line tool and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. It uses the official Python MCP library, supports Python 3.10 and newer, and communicates with the MCP server through standard input and output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Working on Astra's Python code, CLI, and standard-input/standard-output MCP server.
Why use it?
They give an agent the project details needed to make compatible changes.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is nimelkot/astra's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on astra 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 astra configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 52 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 52 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 $0.00052 $0.00052
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00021
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00010
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00005

Measured 2mo ago against content hash fc373ca13c1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

astra 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 · 5 lines

What it actually says

Astra development notes

Astra uses the official MCP Python SDK and targets Python 3.10+. The MCP server is stdio-based and exposes the same core services as the CLI.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 5 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A fc373ca13c1a

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astra copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nimelkot/astra (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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