mcp-server-powerpoint: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

mcp-server-powerpoint copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from sbroenne/mcp-server-powerpoint. It costs 792 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for PowerPointMcp, a Windows-only server that lets tools work with PowerPoint through Microsoft’s component interface. They describe its structure, testing approach, and resource-cleanup rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when adding or fixing PowerPoint commands, interoperation with the desktop application, tests, or server tools.
Why use it?
They help developers change the server without breaking its command flow, tests, or cleanup of PowerPoint resources. TDD means writing or updating tests as part of development.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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When invoked 792 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 $0.00792 $0.00792
Opus 5.5 $0.00317 $0.00317
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00158 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00079 $0.00079

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 301ae7fa2568, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-server-powerpoint 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 · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PowerPointMcp repository rules

GitHub Copilot is the primary coding agent, locally and on GitHub. Use Windows, PowerShell, and the SDK selected by global.json. Desktop PowerPoint is required for COM tests; GitHub-hosted runners do not have it.

MCP Server and pptcli are equal entry points: behavior, defaults, validation, results, and documentation must agree. Read critical rules for every change. Read only the additional instructions matching the work:

Work Instructions
Runtime, contracts, generators Architecture
MCP tools, schemas, MCP generators MCP guide
Tests or behavior changes Testing
Builds, scripts, workflows, releases Development workflow
Agent instructions Instruction maintenance
Skills skills/CLAUDE.md and skills/README.md

Implementation

  • Core [ServiceCategory] interfaces drive generated routing. Change contracts and generators, not emitted code. Follow changes through both entry points, tests, help, and shared guidance.
  • sbroenne/mcp-server-excel is the architectural reference. Before architectural changes, check its existing solution. Preserve PowerPoint-specific differences such as PIA embedding and the absence of Application.ScreenUpdating. Flag shared bugs for Excel or mcp-windows without changing those repos.
  • Keep rules in their linked files, not duplicated here. Tool and operation counts are derived and validated by scripts/check-doc-counts.ps1 from the generated skill manifest, PresentationToolAction, and the MCP protocol tool surface. doc-counts.json is the generated count source for other consumers.

Build and validation

dotnet restore Sbroenne.PowerPointMcp.slnx
dotnet build Sbroenne.PowerPointMcp.slnx -c Release --no-restore

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +16 tokens per session 301ae7fa2568
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -202 lines · -2,854 tokens per session 08674be91b75
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 269 lines · 3,630 tokens per session scan A 482558536ad0

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mcp-server-powerpoint copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sbroenne/mcp-server-powerpoint (37 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 792 tokens to every session, about $0.0032 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 2026-08-30.

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