easy-cheese: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

easy-cheese copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from paulnsorensen/easy-cheese. It costs 708 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Review instructions for a repository containing reusable instructions called skills, rather than a running application.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides pull-request reviews of skill files, workflow skills, bundled resources, and code-intelligence integrations.
Why use it?
It helps reviewers judge whether instructions activate at the right time, explain their reasoning, and stay within the repository’s scope.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is paulnsorensen/easy-cheese's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on easy-cheese 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 easy-cheese configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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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 $0.00708 $0.00708
Opus 5 $0.00354 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00142 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00071 $0.00071

Measured 7d ago against content hash bd461c5e586b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

easy-cheese 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 7d 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 · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot review instructions — easy-cheese

This repo is a skills-only collection following the Agent Skills spec. Every change either adds, edits, or supports a skill under skills/<name>/. There is no production runtime: review focuses on skill quality, not application behavior.

When reviewing a PR, treat it the way the /skill-creator skill would: care about whether the skill will trigger when it should, whether it teaches the model why not just what, and whether bundled resources earn their keep.

What this repo is and isn't

  • Is: self-contained SKILL.md files for shaping ideas, implementing them, and reviewing the result. Workflow skills (mold, culture, cook, press, age, cure, melt, cheese, briesearch) call source-code backends directly through the shared routing contract.
  • Isn't: an agent framework, an orchestrator, or a mandatory-MCP runtime. Native LSP/AST/anchored-edit backends may satisfy skills/cheese/references/code-intelligence-routing.md without a specific MCP. Keep this scope in mind — flag scope creep (intent classification baked into a workflow skill, multi-CLI fan-out inside a tool skill, implicit cross-skill invocation) at review time. Cross-skill handoffs belong in the README's "Suggested flow" or in the skill's own routing section, not as silent auto-dispatch.

Skill review priorities (in order)

Apply the path-scoped instructions in .github/instructions/ for the specifics. The summary order:

  1. Triggering — does the description tell Claude when to use this skill, in language users actually type?
  2. Progressive disclosure — is SKILL.md lean? Does deeper material live in references/, scripts/, assets/ instead of inline?
  3. Why over what — does the skill explain reasoning, or just bark MUSTs?
  4. Bundled resources earn their keep — every references/<file>.md and scripts/<file> should have a clear pointer from SKILL.md telling the model when to load or run it.
  5. Anti-overfit — instructions generalize across realistic prompts, not just the examples baked into the skill itself.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 59 lines · 708 tokens per session scan A bd461c5e586b

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easy-cheese copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository paulnsorensen/easy-cheese (18 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 708 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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.

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