prism: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

prism copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from provasign/prism. Its token cost is not measured, scanned not scanned, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for using Prism, a tool that maps calls and type relationships between code elements. They tell an agent which Prism search or reading command to use for each question.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to locate symbols, search text, find every use of a symbol, include surrounding lines, or read a specific function or file.
Why use it?
They help the agent retrieve relevant code context efficiently and distinguish code searches from literal text searches.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

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Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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