XActions: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

xspace-agents/.github/instructions/browser-automation.instructions.md

XActions browser-automation.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from nirholas/XActions. It costs 327 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Editing guidance for controlling X Spaces through Puppeteer, a browser automation tool, by finding page elements with CSS, text, or accessibility labels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing browser login, joining or speaking in X Spaces, injecting audio, defining selectors, or monitoring page changes.
Why use it?
It reduces breakage when X changes its page structure by keeping multiple ways to locate the same control.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nirholas/XActions. 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/nirholas/XActions/main/xspace-agents/.github/instructions/browser-automation.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirholas/XActions

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 327 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 327 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 $0.00327 $0.00327
Opus 5 $0.00163 $0.00163
Sonnet 5 $0.00065 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00033

Measured 3d ago against content hash a1f03b7c6ae2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

XActions browser-automation.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.

xspace-agents/.github/instructions/browser-automation.instructions.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Browser Automation (packages/core/src/browser/)

Self-Healing Selectors

The SelectorEngine in selector-engine.ts tries multiple strategies in order:

  1. CSS selector
  2. Text content match
  3. ARIA attribute match

Selector definitions live in selectors.ts (SELECTOR_DEFINITIONS).

Rules

  • Never hardcode CSS selectors — always add them to SELECTOR_DEFINITIONS with multiple fallback strategies
  • When X's DOM changes break a selector, add new alternatives rather than replacing old ones
  • The admin panel can override selectors at runtime via POST /admin/selectors/:name
  • Use DOMObserver (CDP-based) for watching DOM changes, not polling

Key Files

File Purpose
lifecycle.ts Launch → login → join → leave → stop lifecycle
launcher.ts Puppeteer launch with stealth plugin
auth.ts X login (cookie auth or form + 2FA)
space-ui.ts DOM interaction: join space, request speaker, inject audio
selector-engine.ts Self-healing selector resolution
selectors.ts All X Space UI element selector definitions
observer.ts CDP-based DOM change monitoring
secure-cookie-store.ts AES-encrypted cookie persistence
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 · 35 lines · 327 tokens per session scan A a1f03b7c6ae2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

XActions browser-automation.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nirholas/XActions (510 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 327 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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 2026-09-03.

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