github-copilot-tdd-instructions copilot-instructions.md

A set of instructions for GitHub Copilot covering test-driven development, project architecture, important workflows, and test commands. Test-driven development, or TDD, means writing a test before writing the code that should pass it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide Copilot through the project architecture, TDD cycle, workflows, and test execution.
Why use it?
It gives Copilot project-specific guidance for writing code and tests in the expected order and structure.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/skaramicke/github-copilot-tdd-instructions/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skaramicke/github-copilot-tdd-instructions

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 731 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 731 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00731 $0.00731
Opus 5 $0.00365 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00146 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00073 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2f713728892d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-copilot-tdd-instructions 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 2d 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 · 80 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.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 80 lines · 731 tokens per session scan A 2f713728892d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-copilot-tdd-instructions copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository skaramicke/github-copilot-tdd-instructions (1 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 731 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 per session on Opus 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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