vibes: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

vibes copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from rcarmo/vibes. It costs 157 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of coding instructions for Vibes, a Go application with a shared Preact web interface and an agent-provider system. It documents important files, coding conventions, configuration, and protocol rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on Vibes' Go services, agent providers, extensions, configuration, server events, or frontend compatibility.
Why use it?
It helps an agent change the Go application without breaking its shared frontend, configuration, testability, or agent communication behavior.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 157 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 157 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 $0.00157 $0.00157
Opus 5.5 $0.00063 $0.00063
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00016

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 83d6609c7c9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vibes 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 1mo 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 · 13 lines

What it actually says

If AGENTBOX_ENVIRONMENT is set and you are in /workspace, then you are running in a sandbox container where you can use uv, brew and apt to install additional tooling. For Python you should prefer pip3 install --user --break-system-packages over a venv.

Build, lint, and test

  • Prefer Makefile targets for common workflows (e.g., make lint, make lint-frontend, make test, make check).
  • Run existing linters/tests before and after changes when feasible.

Avoid duplication

  • Do not duplicate logic across files: extract helpers or reuse existing utilities.
  • Keep tests DRY by parameterizing cases and using fixtures instead of copy/paste.
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. 1mo ago Changed · -11 lines · -91 tokens per session 83d6609c7c9c
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 24 lines · 248 tokens per session scan A fe33e323f0ac

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vibes copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rcarmo/vibes (192 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-01.

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