What is omni-scanner copilot-instructions.md?

A set of GitHub Copilot instructions for Omni, a command-line scanner that compares official project records, local files, deployments, and live system health.

Guiding changes to Omni’s command-line entry point, orchestration layer, registry, discovery scanners, health checks, and governance tools.

It gives coding agents the project’s architecture and critical workflows so they can work within its intended design.

How Pantheon-LadderWorks/omni-scanner configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Pantheon-LadderWorks/omni-scanner. 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/Pantheon-LadderWorks/omni-scanner/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pantheon-LadderWorks/omni-scanner

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 3,606 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 3,606 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.03606	$0.03606
Opus 5.5	$0.01442	$0.01442
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00721	$0.00721
Haiku 4.5	$0.00361	$0.00361

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ede36aef8cf9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

omni-scanner 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 2mo 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 455 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 455 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Copilot Instructions - Omni (Federation Governance Tricorder)

Omni's Identity: Federation sensor array and governance introspection tool
Role: Unified scanning, registry auditing, ecosystem mapping, and health monitoring
Version: 0.6.0+ (Living Plugin System)

I. The Big Picture Architecture

What Is Omni?

Omni is the Federation's Tricorder – a single CLI that bridges the gap between:

Registry Truth (canonical sources like PROJECT_REGISTRY_V1.yaml)
Filesystem Reality (actual codebase, deployments, configurations)
Runtime Health (live station status, database connectivity, tunnels)

Core Philosophy: "We don't guess. We scan."

Architecture Layers

CLI Entry (omni/cli.py)
    ↓
System Orchestrator (omni/core/system.py - OmniInstrument)
    ↓
┌─────────────────┬──────────────────┬─────────────────┐
│      CORE       │     PILLARS      │    SCANNERS     │
│  (Intelligence) │  (Capabilities)  │    (Plugins)    │
├─────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ identity_engine │   cartography    │   discovery/    │ ← Structures
│ registry_builder│   gatekeeper     │   health/       │ ← Runtime
│ registry.py     │   intel          │   static/       │ ← Code
│ config.py       │   registry       │   fleet/        │ ← Fleets
│ paths.py        │                  │   git/          │ ← Repos
│ model.py        │                  │   polyglot/     │ ← Languages
│ gate.py         │                  │                 │
└─────────────────┴──────────────────┴─────────────────┘
    ↓
Artifacts Output (artifacts/omni/*.json)

Key Separations:

Core: Identity, orchestration, data models (the brain)
Pillars: Large subsystems (cartography, registry parsing, compliance gates)
Scanners: Modular plugins (surfaces, events, deps, health checks)
Lib: Shared utilities (I/O, rendering, requirements parsing, TAP verification)

Registry Architecture (The One Ring)

Omni enforces a Single Source of Truth model:

Read the full file on GitHub · 455 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 455 lines · 3,606 tokens per session scan A ede36aef8cf9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

omni-scanner copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Pantheon-LadderWorks/omni-scanner (0 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,606 tokens to every session, about $0.0144 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.

Debugging

omni-scanner copilot-instructions.md next to 6 instructions from other repositories
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omni-scanner: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot