netbox-mcp: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

netbox-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from simonpainter/netbox-mcp. It costs 1,548 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

Instructions for using NetBox through an MCP server, covering infrastructure records such as devices, racks, interfaces, tenants, and related data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when handling NetBox data for data centers, devices, racks, interfaces, tenants, and tenancy management.
Why use it?
They give an agent guidance for working with NetBox’s different infrastructure and tenancy areas.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is simonpainter/netbox-mcp's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on netbox-mcp 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 netbox-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,548 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,548 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 $0.01548 $0.01548
Opus 5.5 $0.00619 $0.00619
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00310 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00155 $0.00155

Measured 2mo ago against content hash b1f082a847dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

netbox-mcp 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 147 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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 · 147 lines · 1,548 tokens per session scan A b1f082a847dc

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netbox-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository simonpainter/netbox-mcp (7 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 1,548 tokens to every session, about $0.0062 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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