polaroid: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

polaroid copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from sandeep-alluru/polaroid. It costs 250 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of groundcrew copilot-instructions.md, MIT.

Project instructions for GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant, working on the polaroid project. They describe the code structure, required coding standards, tests, and steps for adding output formats or integrations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing Python code in polaroid, checking types and style, adding output formats, adding framework integrations, and updating the related tests and exports.
Why use it?
They give the assistant project-specific rules that are not obvious from the code alone, reducing inconsistent changes and missed update steps.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is sandeep-alluru/polaroid's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on polaroid 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 polaroid configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Security

Grade A, and why

polaroid 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 6d 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

This is a copy

83% identical to groundcrew copilot-instructions.md — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Copilot Instructions — polaroid

polaroid: Embeddable CRDT scene graph for embodied AI agents

Module map

src/polaroid/
├── # TODO: fill in after implementation

Key invariants

  • TODO: document invariants

Code style

  • Python 3.10+, type-annotated, mypy strict mode
  • Ruff lint rules: E W F I UP B S N SIM RUF PT; ignore S101 (assert in tests), N806
  • No print() in library code — use rich.console.Console
  • All public classes and functions must have docstrings
  • Tests use pytest; CLI tests use click.testing.CliRunner

Adding a new output format

  1. Add to_<format>(result) -> str in report.py
  2. Add format name to --format choices in cli.py
  3. Add tests

Adding a new adapter / integration

  1. Create src/polaroid/instrument_<framework>.py
  2. Export from __init__.py, add to __all__ alphabetically
  3. Add tests
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. 6d ago First seen · 35 lines · 250 tokens per session scan A 5975c39f7b42

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polaroid copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sandeep-alluru/polaroid (0 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 250 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 83% identical to groundcrew copilot-instructions.md, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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