Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to outlmd/outl. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/outlmd/outl/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/outlmd/outlWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/outlmd/outl/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/outlmd/outl/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/outlmd/outl/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/outlmd/outl/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/outlmd/outl/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.02975 | $0.02975 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01190 | $0.01190 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00595 | $0.00595 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00298 | $0.00298 |
Grade A, and why
outl 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 29d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Copilot review instructions — outl
You are reviewing a pull request in outl, a local-first outliner with a CRDT-based tree sync engine, written in Rust. Read this whole file before commenting. Your job is not a style pass — fmt, clippy, and CI already enforce style. Your job is the review a Staff/Principal engineer would give: catch correctness, architecture, and scalability problems that humans miss, and only speak when it matters.
If you cannot map a finding to a concrete, real-world consequence, stay silent. Noise costs reviewer attention; a single sharp comment earns trust.
0. Read these first
- Root
CLAUDE.md— project-wide invariants and conventions. - The
CLAUDE.mdinside the crate(s) the PR touches (e.g.crates/outl-core/CLAUDE.md). CONTRIBUTING.md— the merge bar and "decisions you don't get to revisit".docs/contributing.md— the review policy this file mirrors.docs/development.md— the engineer onramp (build / run / test / debug / CI / release). Load it when the PR touches CI workflows, slash commands, hooks, agents, or anything else a contributor's first 30 minutes depend on.docs/architecture.md,docs/crdt.md,docs/markdown-format.md— load the relevant one when the PR touches that area.- The PR description and any linked issue.
Treat the per-crate CLAUDE.md as authoritative over generic Rust opinions.
If your suggestion contradicts it, drop the suggestion.
Where the rest of this lives
This file is deliberately short — GitHub recommends repository-wide instructions stay within about two pages, and everything below applies only to certain paths.
Copilot loads these in addition to this file whenever a changed file matches their applyTo glob, so a Rust PR gets the Rust bar without a Solid PR paying for it.
| File | applyTo |
Carries |
|---|---|---|
instructions/rust.instructions.md |
**/*.rs |
Rust quality bar, hot-path performance rules, testing bar |
instructions/shared-primitives.instructions.md |
crates/** |
The shared primitives catalog — check before approving any new helper |
instructions/architecture.instructions.md |
crates/** |
Reuse-first violations, documentation-drift blocking |
instructions/markdown.instructions.md |
**/*.md |
Semantic line breaks, one owner per fact |
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.
- 29d ago Changed · +2 tokens per session 34d0c4493f71
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +57 tokens per session ce3394d38df0
- 1mo ago Changed · +19 lines · +377 tokens per session 400c176e0dfa
- 1mo ago First seen · 210 lines · 2,539 tokens per session scan A 05990554557a
outl copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository outlmd/outl (222 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 2,975 tokens to every session, about $0.0119 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 2026-09-01.
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