XerahS: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

XerahS copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from ShareX/XerahS. It costs 15 tokens per session, scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

Copilot instructions for XerahS, a cross-platform redesign of the ShareX interface built with Avalonia, a framework for desktop user interfaces. They provide project guidance focused on modern user experience, modular structure, maintainability, and existing workflow speed and reliability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when asking Copilot to modify XerahS, especially its interface, modular architecture, or long-term maintenance-related code.
Why use it?
They help Copilot make changes that fit XerahS’s goals and preserve its established workflows.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ShareX/XerahS. 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/ShareX/XerahS/develop/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShareX/XerahS

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 15 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 15 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 unknown 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 $0.00015 $0.00015
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00006
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00003
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00002

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9b812daec93b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

XerahS 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 2mo 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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The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +9 tokens per session 9b812daec93b
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 1 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 0e33c4204f0a

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XerahS copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ShareX/XerahS (347 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session, about $0.0001 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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