sdcorejs-agent: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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sdcorejs-agent copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from sdcorejs/sdcorejs-agent. It costs 1,789 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for an SDLC agent that routes requests to skills for planning, design, implementation, testing, and other development work. They define how to select skills, obtain approvals, and execute work in stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when an agent works on Angular, NestJS, Next.js, product, design, testing, or general software-development tasks in the sdcorejs-agent repository.
Why use it?
They give the agent a consistent development process instead of letting it choose an ad-hoc path for each request. This improves traceability between a request, its plan, and the resulting changes.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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

This is sdcorejs/sdcorejs-agent's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on sdcorejs-agent 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 sdcorejs-agent configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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.github/copilot-instructions.md · 149 lines

How it starts

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SDCoreJS SDLC Agent - GitHub Copilot Instructions

Use this repo as a Runtime-localized SDLC skill pack for AI-agent, Angular, NestJS, Next.js, product-track, design-track, test-track, and generic harness work.

Dispatch

  1. Glob skills/**/*.md and read frontmatter only.
  2. Match the user request against each skill description.
  3. Read the selected skill body before acting.
  4. If no skill matches, invoke sdcorejs-using-skills.

Resolve track/profile/repository/evidence semantics from the versioned _refs/shared/system-registry.json. Keep track, stack profile, capability profile, repository role, artifact owner, and execution host distinct. Current working directory is not artifact-owner evidence.

If several skills match, apply this priority: explicit skill name, approved-plan execution, product docs/traceability, design handoff, test-only work, dedicated utility intent, confirmed track implementation, then brainstorming for ambiguous scope.

Workflow

Request
  -> sdcorejs-brainstorming
  -> sdcorejs-spec (approval gate + approved spec snapshot)
  -> sdcorejs-plan (approval gate + approved plan snapshot)
  -> sdcorejs-execute-plan
       ask execution mode only when both modes are feasible
       dispatch ai-agent | Core UI angular | nestjs | nextjs | product | design | test | generic harness
  -> finish gate and tail chain
       tests -> optional sdcorejs-simplify -> affected focused tests
       -> review/repair -> documentation/task/memory -> ship gates

Track executors:

  • Angular: sdcorejs-angular only for Core UI portals/new SDCoreJS portals/approved Core UI migration; plain Angular uses the generic harness
  • NestJS: sdcorejs-nestjs
  • Next.js: sdcorejs-nextjs
  • AI-agent: sdcorejs-ai-agent only for an approved plan with one engine and one independent capability profile
  • Product: sdcorejs-product
  • Design: sdcorejs-design
  • Test: sdcorejs-test
  • Generic: sdcorejs-execute-plan harness fallback

Under-specified AI-agent requests return to brainstorming. Test, review, and debug intent keep their dedicated owners. The AI-agent track authors governed application contracts/integration and offline evidence; it does not bundle a provider runtime or imply live verification.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

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