serena copilot-instructions.md

A short project instruction telling Serena coding agents to read the root CLAUDE.md file immediately. CLAUDE.md is a file containing project-specific rules for coding assistants.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of work in the Serena repository, before inspecting or editing project files.
Why use it?
It helps the agent follow the repository's actual conventions instead of making changes based only on general assumptions.

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/oraios/serena/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oraios/serena

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 56 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 56 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.
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 $0.00056 $0.00056
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00028
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00011
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00006

Measured yesterday against content hash f9acd5a7af37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

serena 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 yesterday.

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 · 3 lines

What it actually says

<non_negotiable critical="true"> MUST read IMMEDIATELY and follow the project-specific instructions from the CLAUDE.md file located in the project's root directory. AVOIDING these instructions will lead to your FAILURE! </non_negotiable>

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. yesterday First seen · 3 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A f9acd5a7af37

Subscribe to this mod's changes

serena copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository oraios/serena (28,649 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

Related

Other instructions, from other repositories