copilot-agentic-workshop: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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copilot-agentic-workshop api.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from nunosoarescsw/copilot-agentic-workshop. It costs 508 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for building ASP.NET Core web API endpoints, which are URLs that software uses to request or change data. It covers route structure, HTTP methods, OpenAPI documentation, and response formats.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding controllers or Minimal API endpoints to the TaskManager project, including listing, reading, creating, updating, changing state, and deleting tasks.
Why use it?
It keeps endpoints consistent and makes their behavior easier for other developers and API tools to understand.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is nunosoarescsw/copilot-agentic-workshop's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on copilot-agentic-workshop 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 copilot-agentic-workshop configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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copilot-agentic-workshop api.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.

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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.

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What it actually says

API Endpoint Conventions

Endpoint Structure

Always register endpoints using the MapGroup + extension method pattern:

public static class FeatureEndpoints
{
    public static IEndpointRouteBuilder MapFeatureEndpoints(this IEndpointRouteBuilder routes)
    {
        var group = routes.MapGroup("/api/feature").WithTags("Feature");
        // ... endpoint registrations
        return routes;
    }
}

Then call app.MapFeatureEndpoints() from Program.cs.

HTTP Verb Mapping

Operation Verb Route
List all GET /api/{resource}
Get by ID GET /api/{resource}/{id:guid}
Create POST /api/{resource}
Partial update PATCH /api/{resource}/{id:guid}
State transition POST /api/{resource}/{id:guid}/{action}
Delete DELETE /api/{resource}/{id:guid}

Required Metadata on Every Endpoint

Every endpoint must have:

  • .WithName("VerbResourceName") — e.g. "GetAllTasks", "CreateTask"
  • .WithSummary("Human-readable description") — used by OpenAPI/Swagger

Response Types

Use Results.* helpers — never return IActionResult or raw status codes:

Results.Ok(dto)                          // 200
Results.CreatedAtRoute("Name", new { id }, dto)  // 201
Results.NoContent()                      // 204
Results.NotFound()                       // 404
Results.BadRequest("reason")             // 400

Input Binding

  • Bind from body with [FromBody] for POST/PATCH payloads
  • Bind route parameters directly in the lambda signature: (Guid id, ...)
  • Always pass CancellationToken ct as the last lambda parameter

OpenAPI

  • Use builder.Services.AddOpenApi() and app.MapOpenApi() in Program.cs
  • Do not use the deprecated WithOpenApi() extension on individual endpoints
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.

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copilot-agentic-workshop api.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nunosoarescsw/copilot-agentic-workshop (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 508 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 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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