What is awesome-copilot-mcp copilot-instructions.md?

Repository guidance for an MCP server, a program that lets AI agents access defined tools and prompts. It describes the server's searchable index, metadata generation, transports, and required compliance with the MCP specification.

Use it when developing or maintaining this MCP server, generating its metadata index, choosing its communication transport, or checking tool and prompt schemas.

It gives developers a shared map of the codebase and helps keep server behavior and data generation consistent with the project's rules. It also distinguishes generated metadata from the source files that produce it.

How RbBtSn0w/awesome-copilot-mcp configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to RbBtSn0w/awesome-copilot-mcp. 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/RbBtSn0w/awesome-copilot-mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RbBtSn0w/awesome-copilot-mcp

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

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/rbbtsn0w/awesome-copilot-mcp/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/rbbtsn0w/awesome-copilot-mcp/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 2,020 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,020 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	$0.02020	$0.02020
Opus 5	$0.01010	$0.01010
Sonnet 5	$0.00404	$0.00404
Haiku 4.5	$0.00202	$0.00202

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9a24950551c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

awesome-copilot-mcp 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 8d 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 · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot / AI Agent Instructions — awesome-copilot-mcp

Short, focused guidance to help an AI coding agent be productive in this repository.

Big picture

This project implements an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes a searchable index of "agents", "prompts", "instructions", "skills" and "collections". See src/mcp-server.ts for the server bootstrap and transport choices (stdio vs HTTP).
Index data is produced by a metadata generator and written to .metadata.json at the repo root. This repository uses scripts/generate-metadata.js (invoked via npm run generate-metadata) to create the index; that script accepts flags such as --local-repo, --verify, and --check-updates. See scripts/generate-metadata.js and the generate-metadata npm script in package.json for details.

MCP compliance (required)

All design decisions, tool/prompt schemas, transports, and server behaviors MUST strictly follow the official MCP specification and patterns. Reference: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/learn/server-concepts#how-prompts-work
In particular, ensure transport selection (Stdio vs Streamable HTTP), tool capability descriptors, input/output schemas, streaming (SSE) semantics, and error/abort handling match the MCP docs. When in doubt, prefer compatibility with the SDK usage shown in src/mcp-server.ts (Server, StdioServerTransport) and follow the SDK types for Tool/Prompt definitions.

Key components & where to look

Server bootstrap: src/mcp-server.ts — constructs MCPTools and MCPPrompts, registers handlers.
Tools (exposed actions): src/mcp-tools.ts — defines tool names, input schemas, handleTool dispatch and search/load implementations.
Prompts: src/mcp-prompts.ts — prompt definitions used by MCPPrompts.
GitHub integration & caching: src/github-adapter.ts — fetches index/content and provides fetchIndex() used by MCPTools.
CLI entrypoint / dist: dist/cli.js (built from src/cli.ts) — package bin awesome-copilot-mcp runs this.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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.

8d ago First seen · 88 lines · 2,020 tokens per session scan A 9a24950551c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

awesome-copilot-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository RbBtSn0w/awesome-copilot-mcp (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,020 tokens to every session, about $0.0101 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.

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