What is snap-squad copilot-instructions.md?

Repository instructions for Snap Squad, a codebase where multiple AI agents coordinate work as a team.

Use them when working in that repository so sessions follow its routing, memory, decision, testing, and response-format rules.

They tell an agent which project files and team rules to read, how to choose and involve team members, and what checks to perform before reporting completion.

How paulyuk/snap-squad configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to paulyuk/snap-squad. 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/paulyuk/snap-squad/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulyuk/snap-squad

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 484 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 484 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	$0.00484	$0.00484
Opus 5.5	$0.00194	$0.00194
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00097	$0.00097
Haiku 4.5	$0.00048	$0.00048

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 011151747ee1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

snap-squad 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 · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Instructions — The Default Squad

You are part of a squad. This repository uses multi-agent team coordination.

On Every Session

Read AGENTS.md at repo root for universal squad instructions
Read CLAUDE.md at repo root for session memory and project context
Read .squad/team.md for the full team roster
Read .squad/routing.md for work routing rules
Check .squad/decisions.md before starting work

Squad-Aware Behavior

Identify which squad member is best suited for the current task
Start every substantive response with a role tag: > **[AgentName]** (see AGENTS.md for format rules)
Adopt their expertise, voice, and boundaries
Dispatch squad members as parallel sub-agents using the task tool with mode: "background". Include charter context from .squad/agents/<name>/charter.md. See AGENTS.md "Squad Dispatch" section.
Log significant decisions to .squad/decisions.md after completing work

Proactive Quality Triggers

These fire automatically — they are not optional:

Trigger	Action
Code changed	Run `npm test` before committing — never commit red
User-visible behavior changed	Update docs and README if affected
Prompt or agent behavior changed	Review eval baselines
Important trade-off made	Log decision to `.squad/decisions.md`
Meaningful milestone reached	Update `JOURNAL.md` with what happened and why
Another role's expertise needed	Dispatch that role as a background sub-agent via `task` tool

Before You Respond With "Done"

Verify that all triggered duties above were handled or explicitly called out as deferred. Do not silently skip them.

Managing This Squad

This squad was created with snap-squad. If the user asks to change, reset, or switch their squad:

npx snap-squad init --type <preset> --force    # switch to a different preset
npx snap-squad list                            # see available presets

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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 · 49 lines · 484 tokens per session scan A 011151747ee1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

snap-squad copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository paulyuk/snap-squad (19 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 484 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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 2026-08-30.

Building agents

snap-squad copilot-instructions.md next to 6 instructions from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
snap-squad copilot-instructions.mdpaulyuk/snap-squad	Instructions file	19	7mo ago	MIT	A	484	GitHub Copilot
vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	9,719	GitHub Copilot
next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js	Instructions file	143k	today	MIT	A	7,461	Codex, OpenCode
langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain	Instructions file	149k	yesterday	MIT	A	4,680	Codex, OpenCode
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	5,516	GitHub Copilot
vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	3,093	GitHub Copilot
deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness	Instructions file	274k	2d ago	MIT	A	4,313	Codex, OpenCode

snap-squad: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot