windows-computer-use-mcp: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

windows-computer-use-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from sandraschi/windows-computer-use-mcp. It costs 164 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Copilot instructions for controlling Windows applications through an MCP server. It describes how to inspect the desktop, request approval before clicks or typing, and verify the server with code-quality and test commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide Windows UI automation sessions, require human approval for mutating actions, check the FastAPI service, run Ruff and pytest, and finish with a repository commit.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent a consistent safety and verification procedure for desktop automation. This reduces accidental changes and makes it less likely that unfinished work is left untested or uncommitted.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is sandraschi/windows-computer-use-mcp's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on windows-computer-use-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 windows-computer-use-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 164 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 164 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.
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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 $0.00164 $0.00164
Opus 5.5 $0.00066 $0.00066
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00016

Measured 16d ago against content hash eef8947bb56e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

windows-computer-use-mcp 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 16d 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.

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What it actually says

windows-computer-use-mcp — Copilot instructions

Native Windows UI automation over MCP: 20 portmanteau tools, all with an operation enum. Start sessions by recalling: automation_windows (find/focus), get_desktop_state (element tree), approve_automation before any click/type. Mutating runs need HITL approval or windows_computer_use_mcp_BYPASS_HITL=1. Backend: FastAPI on :10789 (/api/v1/*, MCP on /mcp); frontend :10788. Verify with uv run --no-sync ruff check src/ and pytest tests/ -q --no-cov. Close of work: commit per repo AGENTS.md, never leave the tree dirty.

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. 16d ago First seen · 10 lines · 164 tokens per session scan A eef8947bb56e

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windows-computer-use-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sandraschi/windows-computer-use-mcp (48 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 164 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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 2026-10-11.

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