librarian: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

librarian copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from omtodkar/librarian. It costs 162 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for Librarian, a tool that searches code and documentation by meaning and maps how parts of a project connect. It points agents to its project rules and a saved overview of the codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find related code and documents, inspect what connects to a component, trace paths between parts, and review the project's topology report.
Why use it?
It helps an agent understand a large or unfamiliar project before changing it, instead of relying only on exact text searches.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 162 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 162 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 $0.00162 $0.00162
Opus 5.5 $0.00065 $0.00065
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00016

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a6fdf10cf34f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

librarian 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Librarian

This project uses Librarian for semantic search and graph-based code navigation. See .librarian/rules.md for the full guidance.

Before exploring with grep/find, try:

  • librarian search "<topic>" — semantic search over docs + code
  • librarian context "<topic>" — deep briefing: related docs + code refs
  • librarian neighbors <node> — what does X connect to?
  • librarian path <from> <to> — how do these pieces relate?

Read .librarian/out/GRAPH_REPORT.md for a topology snapshot (god nodes, communities, cross-cluster edges).

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. 1mo ago First seen · 17 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A a6fdf10cf34f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

librarian copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository omtodkar/librarian (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 162 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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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