prism copilot-instructions.md

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

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/provasign/prism/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/provasign/prism

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 537 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 537 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00537 $0.00537
Opus 5 $0.00269 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00107 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00054 $0.00054

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4562dc788e6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prism 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Prism — context delivery

Prism indexes this repo's call and type graph. grep finds the same lines — prism tells you which of them matter (file-level precision 0.51 -> 0.91 on change tasks) and answers in one call where search-then-read takes several.

Route by the question. One call, and treat its result as final:

Question Call
where is X? prism_search(query="X") — searches symbol names AND raw text. Several names? You MUST batch: query=["X","Y"] — one search per name wastes a turn each. Know where to look: path=, glob=, files_only=true
a literal string, message or config key prism_search(query="...", scope="text") — pure grep, cheapest. Use it for TEXT; leave the default for code
EVERY site of X (rewrite them all, count them) prism_search(query="X", exhaustive=true) — results are capped at 25 by default and a capped answer to a completeness question looks complete. Say exhaustive; add files_only=true to keep it cheap
X, plus the lines around it prism_search(query="X", context=N) — one call instead of search-then-prism_read
read one function, or one file prism_lookup(name="pkg.Func") / prism_read
give me the code for X, ready to edit prism_query(task="<label>", terms=["X"]) — keys on terms; the wording changes nothing
who breaks if I change X? prism_change_impact(query="Type.method")
is my diff complete? prism_verify

Before editing an existing symbol, run prism_change_impact: declarations, every override and implementation, all resolved callers, type-resolved in one call. Relay that set as-is — re-verifying or filtering it through grep/sed/scripts measurably drops real sites.

Bash-only (subagents, CI) — same verbs, add --format text:

prism search <term>... [--path <file-or-dir>] [--exhaustive] --scope text
prism query "<task>" --terms X
prism change-impact 'Type.method'
prism lookup <pkg.Func>   |   prism read <file>   |   prism verify --base <ref>
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. 2d ago First seen · 34 lines · 537 tokens per session scan A 4562dc788e6d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prism copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository provasign/prism (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 537 tokens to every session, about $0.0027 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 2026-08-31.