rubydex: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

rubydex copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Shopify/rubydex. It costs 5 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

Editor instructions for Shopify’s Rubydex project, described as a high-performance static-analysis toolkit for Ruby. Static analysis examines source code without running the program.

In plain words
What is it for?
Editing Rubydex code in an editor that supports Copilot instructions.
Why use it?
They give an AI coding assistant project-specific context and instructions.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot ✓ vendor

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 5 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 5 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 $0.00005 $0.00005
Opus 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00002
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00001
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00001

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 946e40acef7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rubydex 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

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 2mo ago First seen · 1 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A 946e40acef7b

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rubydex copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Shopify/rubydex (374 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 5 tokens to every session, about $0.0000 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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