content-sdk: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

content-sdk copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Sitecore/content-sdk. It costs 193 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for AI coding agents working on the Sitecore Content SDK. They identify the main instruction files, coding rules, skills, and files that must not be changed or committed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when making changes in this repository, especially when working with sample apps, environment files, component code, or project configuration.
Why use it?
They give an agent one place to find project conventions and safety boundaries, reducing accidental edits to generated files, secrets, or CI settings.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is Sitecore/content-sdk's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on content-sdk 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 content-sdk configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Sitecore/content-sdk. 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/Sitecore/content-sdk/dev/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sitecore/content-sdk

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 193 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 193 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 original 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 $0.00193 $0.00193
Opus 5.5 $0.00077 $0.00077
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00019

Measured 15d ago against content hash 60c8687d7025, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

content-sdk 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 15d 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 · 10 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Copilot — Sitecore Content SDK

For AI agent instructions, commands, and coding rules in this repository, use:

  • AGENTS.md (repo root) — Canonical source: project overview, quick commands, package structure, DO/DON'T, boundaries, git workflow. For scaffolded head apps under samples/, use that app’s AGENTS.md.
  • .cursor/rules/ — Detailed coding rules (code-style, safety, sitecore, testing, etc.). Security and secrets: see safety.mdc.
  • Skills.md and .agents/skills/ — Capability-level instructions (e.g. component registration, Sitecore client, editing) for tools that support the Agent Skills standard.

Do not edit dist/**, commit .env/.env.local, or change CI/config without explicit instruction.

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. 15d ago First seen · 10 lines · 193 tokens per session scan A 60c8687d7025

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content-sdk copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Sitecore/content-sdk (37 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 193 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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 2026-10-02.

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