easy-cheese: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/skills.instructions.md

easy-cheese skills.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from paulnsorensen/easy-cheese. It costs 1,020 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for SKILL.md files, covering metadata, instructions, supporting resources, and writing style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing and improving coding-agent skills before they are used or shared.
Why use it?
It helps catch problems that automatic checks cannot, such as unclear activation wording, repeated instructions, or resources that do not justify their inclusion.

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/instructions/skills.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulnsorensen/easy-cheese

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,020 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,020 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 $0.01020 $0.01020
Opus 5 $0.00510 $0.00510
Sonnet 5 $0.00204 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00102 $0.00102

Measured 9d ago against content hash 72a0fa0460ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

easy-cheese skills.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 9d 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/instructions/skills.instructions.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL.md review checklist

Review SKILL.md changes the way /skill-creator would. The validator already checks that name matches the directory and that frontmatter parses. Spend your review budget on the things linters cannot see.

Frontmatter

  • name matches the parent directory (validator catches mismatch).
  • description is the triggering mechanism. It must:
    • Say what the skill does and when to invoke it.
    • Include realistic user phrases ("review this diff", "fix the conflicts", "shape this into a spec"), not abstract noun phrases ("code review operations").
    • Lean slightly pushy. Skills under-trigger by default. A description like "Use even when the user says 'tighten things up' before review" is fine.
    • Call out boundaries — what this skill does not do — when there's a sibling skill it could be confused with (e.g., /age finds vs /cure fixes).
  • model, allowed-tools, license are optional but should be consistent across siblings unless a skill genuinely needs different values.

Body length and progressive disclosure

  • Aim for SKILL.md under ~500 lines. Going over is fine when justified, but if instructions repeat themselves, pull them into references/<topic>.md and link from SKILL.md with a one-line "read this when …" pointer.
  • For skills that span multiple variants (per-language fixers, per-conflict cascade stages, per-severity findings flows), keep the selection logic in SKILL.md and put the variant-specific detail in references/. Claude only loads what it needs.
  • Tables of contents only earn their place in reference files >300 lines.

Bundled resources must pay rent

  • Every file under scripts/, references/, assets/ has at least one reference from SKILL.md saying when to use it.
  • Scripts encode deterministic, repeated work — if every invocation of the skill would re-derive the same shell incantation, bundle it.
  • Templates and static text live in assets/, not inlined in SKILL.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 9d ago First seen · 88 lines · 1,020 tokens per session scan A 72a0fa0460ca

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easy-cheese skills.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository paulnsorensen/easy-cheese (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,020 tokens to every session, about $0.0051 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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