mcp: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from riseup-oss/mcp. It costs 1,123 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Code-review guidance for a TypeScript MCP server, a program that lets AI clients call tools to retrieve a user’s financial data from RiseUp.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing API calls, authentication-token handling, logging, data storage, network destinations, and accidental changes to a read-only service.
Why use it?
It focuses reviews on risks that matter for internet-distributed software, especially leaking financial data or long-lived access tokens.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is riseup-oss/mcp's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on mcp 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 mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to riseup-oss/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/riseup-oss/mcp/master/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/riseup-oss/mcp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,123 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,123 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.01123 $0.01123
Opus 5.5 $0.00449 $0.00449
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00225 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00112 $0.00112

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 457fc4ac7464, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

5. **Documentation accuracy.** `docs/` and `README.md` give end users curl examples that have to actually work. Wrong path, wrong header, stale env-var name → flag.
.github/copilot-instructions.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Code Review Instructions — @riseup-oss/mcp

Context

This repository is the official RiseUp MCP server — a small TypeScript package distributed via npm to end users (Claude Desktop, Base44, Claude Agent SDK, other MCP clients). It runs on the user's machine, holds the user's Personal Access Token in an environment variable, and calls the RiseUp Exposed API at https://input.riseup.co.il/api/external/* to fetch the user's own financial data.

Key facts that shape what feedback matters:

  • Internet-distributed package. Anyone with the published npm package runs this code. A compromise here ships directly to customers.
  • Customer data passes through. Budget / transactions / balances flow through this process. Anything that logs, persists, transmits to a third party, or otherwise leaks the response body is a serious finding.
  • PAT is a long-lived bearer secret. Logging it, embedding it in errors, sending it to any host besides the configured RISEUP_API_BASE, or storing it on disk are critical issues.
  • Read-only API. This package never mutates RiseUp state. Anything that looks like a write call (POST/PUT/DELETE/PATCH) is wrong unless explicitly for token management.
  • Tech stack: TypeScript, ESM ("type": "module"), @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, zod for input schemas, jest (with --experimental-vm-modules) for tests, Node 18+.
  • Architecture: stdio MCP server (src/index.ts) registers tools (src/tools/*.ts) that call a thin HTTP client (src/client.ts) which uses fetch against the RiseUp API. No DB, no caching, no telemetry.

What feedback to share

Prioritize findings in roughly this order:

  1. Supply-chain / secrets. Hardcoded PATs/keys; a console.log of headers or auth; a fetch to a host other than RISEUP_API_BASE; reading from process.env for anything beyond RISEUP_PAT and RISEUP_API_BASE; writing to disk; opening sockets; spawning subprocesses; adding dependencies that aren't widely used or maintained.
  2. Customer data hygiene. Logging response bodies; including bodies in error messages; persisting fetched data; sending data anywhere besides the MCP client's stdio. The package should be transparent — request in, response out, nothing on disk.
  3. MCP protocol correctness. Tool input schemas using zod; tool descriptions that are accurate (Claude reads them to pick which tool to call); return shape { content: [{ type: 'text', text }] }; error returns set isError: true and put a useful message in content[0].text.
  4. Dependencies. Carets (^) in package.json — we pin exact versions for supply-chain safety. New deps should be widely-used, recently-maintained, and necessary. Flag anything looking like name-squatting (reqquest, lodahs, etc.).
  5. Documentation accuracy. docs/ and README.md give end users curl examples that have to actually work. Wrong path, wrong header, stale env-var name → flag.
  6. Public API surface. Anything exported from src/index.ts is part of our SDK contract. New top-level exports merit a note.
  7. Test coverage of the HTTP client (src/client.ts). Auth header, error mapping (401/403/429), URL construction. Don't be precious about coverage of pure-data tool wrappers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 53 lines · 1,123 tokens per session scan A 457fc4ac7464

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mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository riseup-oss/mcp (34 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,123 tokens to every session, about $0.0045 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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