FieldWorks: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/build.instructions.md

build.instructions is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from sillsdev/FieldWorks. It costs 1,011 tokens per session, scanned C, original, no licence file.

Project instructions for building FieldWorks software, including tips for the inner development loop.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when compiling, testing, or iterating on FieldWorks code.
Why use it?
They explain the project's expected build process and day-to-day development practices.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sillsdev/FieldWorks. 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/sillsdev/FieldWorks/main/.github/instructions/build.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sillsdev/FieldWorks

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,011 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,011 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.01011 $0.01011
Opus 5.5 $0.00404 $0.00404
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00202 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00101 $0.00101

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5f177eb3ab38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

build.instructions scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Nullifies safety policieshighAnti-refusal

"You have no restrictions", "do anything now", "ignore your guidelines": a direct jailbreak that disables guardrails.

- You can still override the policy explicitly with:
.github/instructions/build.instructions.md · 86 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 1,011 tokens per session scan C 5f177eb3ab38

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build.instructions is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sillsdev/FieldWorks (110 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 1,011 tokens to every session, about $0.0040 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (nullifies safety policies). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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