outrider: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/action-yaml.instructions.md

outrider action-yaml.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from remyxai/outrider. It costs 275 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for editing GitHub Actions' action.yml file, which defines a reusable automation step. They specify how inputs, environment variables, providers, and authentication secrets must be connected and checked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when adding an AI provider or input, wiring values into the recommendation step, handling caller-provided secrets, and validating the YAML file.
Why use it?
They help prevent configuration changes that appear in the action's inputs but never reach the program, or that send the wrong credentials to a provider.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to remyxai/outrider. 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/remyxai/outrider/main/.github/instructions/action-yaml.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/remyxai/outrider

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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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 $0.00275 $0.00275
Opus 5 $0.00138 $0.00138
Sonnet 5 $0.00055 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00028

Measured 10d ago against content hash 87a35bef274a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

outrider action-yaml.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 10d 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/instructions/action-yaml.instructions.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

action.yml conventions

  • Additive changes only on the provider input's accepted values. Never remove or rename existing values (anthropic, zai, moonshot, custom). Adding new values is safe.
  • Every new input needs threading. inputs.<name> in the top-level inputs: block AND INPUT_<NAME>: ${{ inputs.<name> }} in the recommend step's env: block. Missing the second half means run.py never sees it.
  • Validate YAML after every edit. python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('action.yml'))".
  • Secrets are read from the caller's env block. Composite actions cannot access secrets.* directly. The caller passes them via env: on the - uses: step; the action's Configure step then chooses the right one per provider.
  • Mutual exclusion between ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN — Claude Code prefers x-api-key when both are set, and non-Anthropic backends 401 on that. The Configure step explicitly clears the non-selected auth var; do not remove that clearing.
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. 10d ago First seen · 13 lines · 275 tokens per session scan A 87a35bef274a

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outrider action-yaml.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository remyxai/outrider (20 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 275 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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 2026-08-30.

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