notebooklm-mcp-cli: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

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

Instructions for GitHub Copilot when working on the NotebookLM MCP CLI project. They require loading the project's standards files before work and keeping session and backlog records updated afterward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to guide Copilot before coding, follow the project's required file-loading order, format versions correctly, and update session and backlog notes.
Why use it?
They provide a fixed starting procedure and project record-keeping rules, while warning against storing credentials or sensitive health information in those files.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 123 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 123 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 $0.00123 $0.00123
Opus 5.5 $0.00049 $0.00049
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00012

Measured 12d ago against content hash 09bc7f8e454b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebooklm-mcp-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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Copilot Instructions

Read ai/STANDARDS.md and load all files in the order it specifies before beginning any work. Do not start coding, planning, or responding until the full load order is complete.

This project uses version format: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.YYYYMMDD.HHMM Example: 1.0.0.20260325.0624

At the end of every session, update ai/SESSION.md and ai/BACKLOG.md. Never store credentials, secrets, or PHI in any ai/ file.

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. 12d ago Changed 09bc7f8e454b
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 12 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 9c1bb37871da

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notebooklm-mcp-cli copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Robiton/notebooklm-mcp-cli (0 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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