horizon: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

horizon copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from peters/horizon. It costs 108 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for reviewing code changes in the Horizon project. They define which problems to report, where to report them, and when not to repeat or raise a finding.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide pull-request reviews, including checks for required files, test procedures, user-interface evidence, and concrete failure triggers.
Why use it?
They keep code reviews focused on concrete defects caused or exposed by the change, rather than unrelated issues or deliberate design choices.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is peters/horizon's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on horizon 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 horizon configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 108 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 108 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 $0.00108 $0.00108
Opus 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00043
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00011

Measured 3d ago against content hash aaaf1221c231, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

horizon 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 3d 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 · 9 lines

What it actually says

Code review instructions moved

The review rules are in docs/, which is the documentation home of this repository. This file is a pointer only. It holds no review rule.

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. 3d ago Changed · -49 lines · -514 tokens per session aaaf1221c231
  2. 15d ago First seen · 58 lines · 622 tokens per session scan A 96f866d833ff

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horizon copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository peters/horizon (722 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 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 2026-10-13.

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