reolink-cli: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

reolink-cli copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from reolink/reolink-cli. It costs 354 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions for using reolink-cli to control Reolink network cameras and doorbells. It covers camera discovery, snapshots, live streams, pan-tilt-zoom, detection, recordings, users, firmware, and other device operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for local camera discovery, snapshots, previews, stream URLs, motion settings, recording searches, alarm events, account management, reboots, or firmware updates.
Why use it?
It tells the agent how to check and control these cameras through the proper command-line tool instead of assuming that a device or feature is reachable.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is reolink/reolink-cli's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on reolink-cli 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 reolink-cli configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 354 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 354 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 $0.00354 $0.00354
Opus 5.5 $0.00142 $0.00142
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00071 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00035 $0.00035

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0c6a5fad65fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reolink-cli 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 · 29 lines

What it actually says

This project can operate Reolink IP cameras locally via the reolink-cli binary. When a request involves an IP / network / surveillance / doorbell camera on the LAN — discovery, login, snapshot, preview, PTZ, IR/spotlight/LEDs, image tuning, OSD, motion + AI detection, recording + SD-card status, VOD search/download, alarm events, users, reboot, firmware upgrade, or RTSP/RTMP/FLV stream URLs — drive it through reolink-cli (JSON stdout by default), not by guessing.

The authoritative operating guide is skills/reolink-cli/SKILL.md and its references/. Follow it: never state camera reachability, config, or capabilities unless a reolink-cli command actually returned them; keep passwords off argv (use REOLINK_PASSWORD / --password-stdin); most control commands need the gateway running (reolink-cli gateway start --addr 127.0.0.1:9000 &).

If reolink-cli is not installed, see skills/reolink-cli/references/setup.md → Install the reolink-cli binary.

Using this with Copilot in your own project

Install the skill into GitHub Copilot (and other agents) with:

npx skills@latest add reolink/reolink-cli

Select github-copilot; the skill is written to your workspace's .github/copilot-instructions.md.

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 First seen · 29 lines · 354 tokens per session scan A 0c6a5fad65fd

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reolink-cli copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository reolink/reolink-cli (117 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 354 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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 2026-08-30.

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