clawker: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

clawker copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from schmitthub/clawker. It costs 1,398 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Copilot instructions for the Clawker repository. It defines review priorities and standing rules for lint suppressions, control-plane servers, and instruction files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide Copilot when working on lint exceptions, control-plane listeners, or the repository's agent instructions.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent repository-specific rules to follow during code changes and reviews.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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

This is schmitthub/clawker's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on clawker 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 clawker configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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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 $0.01398 $0.01398
Opus 5.5 $0.00559 $0.00559
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00280 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00140 $0.00140

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8e73f8172c75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clawker 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 · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot code review instructions

You review pull requests for this repository. AGENTS.md at the repository root, the package AGENTS.md files, and the Serena memories under .serena/memories/ are the coding standard. This file tells you what to look for first and how to write each comment.

Read the head branch of the pull request. Compare every added or changed line against the priorities below, in order.

Priority 1: lint suppression

Flag every added or changed lint suppression. One comment per occurrence.

Markers to find in the diff:

  • //nolint and // nolint (with or without a linter list)
  • #nosec
  • //lint:ignore
  • Changes to exclusions, exclude, or nolintlint settings in .golangci.yml

The repository rule (.serena/memories/conventions.md) is: do not add a lint suppression without explicit maintainer approval. Correct the code so the linter passes. An explanation text after the marker is not sufficient on its own. In each comment:

  1. Quote the marker and the linter it silences.
  2. State that the rule requires maintainer approval.
  3. Propose the code change that removes the need for the suppression.

Priority 2: control plane servers and listeners

Applies to new or changed calls to grpc.NewServer, net.Listen, net.ListenConfig, http.Server, and ListenAndServe in these paths:

  • controlplane/**
  • internal/controlplane/**
  • cmd/clawkercp/**
  • clawkerd/**

The canonical authorization code is controlplane/auth:

  • auth.NewAuthInterceptor builds the interceptor from a Hydra introspector and a method-to-scope map.
  • AuthInterceptor.UnaryInterceptor, AuthInterceptor.StreamInterceptor, and AuthInterceptor.GRPCServerOptions attach it to a gRPC server.
  • controlplane/server/grpc_stack.go shows the required chain order: recovery interceptor, then ready-gate interceptor, then auth interceptor.

Report each of these as a blocking finding:

  • No auth. A gRPC server on the admin or agent surface without the controlplane/auth interceptor chain. A hand-written token check, a header check, or a copy of the interceptor logic is not acceptable; the server must use controlplane/auth.
  • Reused auth material. A listener that loads certificate, key, or CA files that belong to another lane, or that shares a tls.Config with another lane. Each listener has its own certificate lane in its own subpackage (controlplane/infracerts, controlplane/otelcerts, controlplane/sdscerts are the pattern). See "Why not otelcerts" in controlplane/sdscerts/AGENTS.md.
  • mTLS without a pin. A listener that uses client certificates instead of bearer tokens must set ClientAuth: tls.RequireAndVerifyClientCert and pin the peer CN or SAN in VerifyPeerCertificate. clawkerd/listener.go is the reference. The pull request description must say why bearer authorization does not apply to that listener.
  • Crash path. panic, log.Fatal, or os.Exit on the control plane boot or serve path, or a serve goroutine without a recover. See the CP failure rules in controlplane/AGENTS.md. A degraded subsystem must emit a structured log line with event=<subsystem>_unavailable.

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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 · 126 lines · 1,398 tokens per session scan A 8e73f8172c75

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clawker copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository schmitthub/clawker (58 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,398 tokens to every session, about $0.0056 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 2026-09-08.

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