agentops-template: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

agentops-template copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from SarutobiSasuke8/agentops-template. It costs 289 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A GitHub Copilot instruction file for an agentops-template repository. It tells Copilot how to make small, style-consistent suggestions and how to approach tests and verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding code suggestions, behavior changes, test updates, comments, naming, file organisation, and acceptance checks.
Why use it?
It helps Copilot follow the repository’s conventions and avoid unnecessary rewrites, dependencies, or unrelated edits.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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

This is SarutobiSasuke8/agentops-template's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on agentops-template 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 agentops-template configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to SarutobiSasuke8/agentops-template. 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/SarutobiSasuke8/agentops-template/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SarutobiSasuke8/agentops-template

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 289 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 289 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 $0.00289 $0.00289
Opus 5.5 $0.00116 $0.00116
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00058 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00029 $0.00029

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 56a6bfb5db45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentops-template 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 · 31 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Copilot Instructions

Canonical source: AGENTS.md

Follow AGENTS.md. This file holds Copilot-specific guidance only; the canonical principles live in AGENTS.md.

Alignment Markers

  • Think Before Coding — surface assumptions in comments or PR notes when ambiguity matters.
  • Simplicity First — avoid speculative abstractions, configuration, and features.
  • Surgical Changes — touch only the code needed for the requested behavior.
  • Goal-Driven Execution — suggest tests or checks alongside behavior changes.
  • Vibe Coding Quality Bar — keep UI suggestions polished, accessible, responsive, and aligned with docs/PROJECT_BRIEF.md.

Copilot Behavior

  • Prefer existing code style, file organization, and naming.
  • Keep suggestions small and relevant to the current file or task.
  • Avoid broad rewrites unless explicitly requested.
  • Do not introduce new dependencies without a clear reason.
  • Preserve comments and user-authored text unless the task requires editing them.
  • Add comments only for non-obvious logic.

Tests and Verification

  • Add or update tests when changing behavior.
  • Keep tests focused on the changed behavior.
  • Prefer concrete acceptance checks over vague "works" language.
  • Do not remove tests unless they are replaced or explicitly obsolete.
  • For PRs that change major behavior or architecture, link or request a session log in Session Logs/.
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 · 31 lines · 289 tokens per session scan A 56a6bfb5db45

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agentops-template copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository SarutobiSasuke8/agentops-template (9 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 289 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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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