ai-mind-map: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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ai-mind-map copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from shdra06/ai-mind-map. It costs 1,132 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for using an AI mind-map service that remembers a codebase between conversations. It provides project context, searches code, explains relationships between code parts, and tracks session progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resume work, start or end tracked sessions, search code by name or concept, find references, trace dependencies, and read relevant code context.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated file reading and helps an agent recover what changed and where important code is located after a previous session.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is shdra06/ai-mind-map's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on ai-mind-map 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 ai-mind-map configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to shdra06/ai-mind-map. 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/shdra06/ai-mind-map/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shdra06/ai-mind-map

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01132 $0.01132
Opus 5.5 $0.00453 $0.00453
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00226 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00113 $0.00113

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c755e0503503, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-mind-map 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Mind Map MCP — Code Memory Engine (v1.4.0)

You have the AI Mind Map MCP server connected. It is a persistent code memory system that eliminates redundant file re-reading and context loss between sessions.

🚀 FIRST THING TO DO IN EVERY CONVERSATION

Call mindmap_session_resume — it returns:

  • What the previous AI agent worked on
  • What code changed since then (function-level diffs, not just file names)
  • Project structure + tech stack
  • Hot files (most frequently modified)

This ONE call replaces reading 10+ files (~2000 tokens instead of 50,000+).

Quick Lookup: "I need to..." → Use this tool

⚡ Session Lifecycle (always use these)

  • Resume from last session → mindmap_session_resume ⭐⭐ (THE first call)
  • Start tracking a new task → mindmap_session_start
  • End session, save summary → mindmap_session_end

🔍 Find Code (instead of grep/reading files)

  • Search by name → mindmap_smart_search ⭐ (returns full context)
  • Search by concept → mindmap_semantic_search ⭐ ("authentication", "error handling")
  • Grep text in code → mindmap_search_code
  • Who calls X? → mindmap_trace_dependencies
  • All usages of symbol → mindmap_find_references

📖 Read Code (without reading full files)

  • Everything about a symbol → mindmap_explain ⭐ (signature + callers + callees + doc in ONE call)
  • Read actual source code → mindmap_get_code_snippet
  • Understand file without reading → mindmap_file_digest ⭐ (saves 3-10K tokens/file)
  • All symbols in a file → mindmap_get_file_map
  • Just the signature → mindmap_get_signature (cheapest read)

📊 Understand the Project

  • Full project summary → mindmap_digest ⭐ (<2000 tokens)
  • Architecture overview → mindmap_architecture
  • Full project map → mindmap_project_map
  • Layer overview → mindmap_layer_overview

🔄 Change Tracking

  • Symbol-level diffs → mindmap_changelog ⭐ (added/modified/deleted functions)
  • Git-aware changes → mindmap_git_changes (maps diffs to symbols)
  • Check if cached code is valid → mindmap_verify ⭐ (hash check, no re-reading)
  • Most changed files → mindmap_hotspots
  • What changed recently? → mindmap_what_changed
  • Changes since last session → mindmap_session_diff

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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 First seen · 97 lines · 1,132 tokens per session scan A c755e0503503

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ai-mind-map copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository shdra06/ai-mind-map (3 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,132 tokens to every session, about $0.0045 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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