github-copilot-prompts py.instructions.md

Instructions for raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts, covering python coding best practices, python-specific guidelines, error handling, documentation and testing.

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/raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts/py
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 256 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 256 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 $0.00256 $0.00256
Opus 5 $0.00128 $0.00128
Sonnet 5 $0.00051 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00026

Measured yesterday against content hash 48792e5a07cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-copilot-prompts py.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 yesterday.

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/py.instructions.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Python Coding Best Practices

Python-Specific Guidelines

  • Follow PEP 8 for code style and formatting.
  • Group imports at the top of the file by standard library, third-party, and local imports.
  • Prefer list comprehensions and generator expressions for simple transformations.
  • Use type hints for function signatures and variable declarations.

Error Handling

  • Avoid using bare except clauses.
  • Clean up resources using context managers (with statement) where possible.

Documentation

  • Add docstrings to all public modules, classes, functions, and methods.
  • Use triple double quotes for docstrings.

Testing

  • Write unit tests for all functions and classes.
  • Use unittest or pytest frameworks.
  • Name test files and functions clearly.

File and Directory Structure

  • Use lowercase with underscores for module and file names.
  • Organize code into packages and modules logically.
  • Place executable code inside if __name__ == "__main__": blocks.

Performance

  • Profile and optimize only after identifying bottlenecks.
  • Use built-in data structures and libraries where possible.

Version Control

  • Commit code with clear, concise messages.
  • Do not commit secrets or large binary files.
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. yesterday First seen · 36 lines · 256 tokens per session scan A 48792e5a07cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-copilot-prompts py.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository raffertyuy/github-copilot-prompts (43 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 256 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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 2026-09-01.

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