sonic-swss: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

sonic-swss copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from sonic-net/sonic-swss. It costs 1,727 tokens per session, scanned B, original, no licence file.

Project-specific coding instructions for sonic-swss, including its architecture, key concepts, language, and style. They guide an AI coding assistant working in the repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when asking an AI assistant to change or review sonic-swss code.
Why use it?
They provide repository context that general-purpose coding advice would not know.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is sonic-net/sonic-swss's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on sonic-swss 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 sonic-swss configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sonic-net/sonic-swss. 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/sonic-net/sonic-swss/master/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sonic-net/sonic-swss

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,727 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,727 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 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 $0.01727 $0.01727
Opus 5.5 $0.00691 $0.00691
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00345 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00173 $0.00173

Measured 11d ago against content hash b1b3970aa998, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

sonic-swss copilot-instructions.md scanned grade B 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 11d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt install redis-server libhiredis0.14 libzmq5 libzmq3-dev \
.github/copilot-instructions.md · 162 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. 11d ago First seen · 162 lines · 1,727 tokens per session scan B b1b3970aa998

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sonic-swss copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sonic-net/sonic-swss (243 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 1,727 tokens to every session, about $0.0069 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-26.

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