Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to sovantica/engrava. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sovantica/engrava/dev/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sovantica/engravaWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/sovantica/engrava/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/sovantica/engrava/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/sovantica/engrava/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/sovantica/engrava/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/sovantica/engrava/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00466 | $0.00466 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00186 | $0.00186 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00093 | $0.00093 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00047 | $0.00047 |
Grade A, and why
engrava 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 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Copilot Instructions — engrava
Public repository (engrava) — Graph memory database for AI agents.
License: MIT. Primary language: python 3.11+.
Commit messages
- Use Conventional Commits 1.0.0:
<type>(<scope>): <description>. SeeCLAUDE.mdfor the type table. - Use only durable public identifiers: this repo's release tags (
vX.Y.Z), this repo's GitHub issue/PR numbers (#N), and locally-documented ADRs (docs/adr/ADR-NNN-*.mdafter the file exists here). - Generic feature descriptions are welcome; concise imperative subject lines preferred (max 72 chars).
- Default PR target:
dev.
Branch names
- Format:
<type>/<kebab-description>. Plain English. ≤ 50 chars. - No internal identifiers, no abbreviations that wouldn't make sense to someone reading the repo for the first time.
Code style
- Follow the existing patterns in
src/. Read 3-5 nearby files before introducing a new pattern. - Adhere to the quality bar described in
CLAUDE.md— linting clean, typing strict, coverage above threshold, no shortcuts. - Match the project's existing naming, file layout, and import conventions; don't invent new structures unprompted.
What to avoid
- Don't reference internal-looking identifiers or paths in commits, code comments, or PR descriptions. If something feels like it belongs to a private workflow, leave it out and the maintainer can add a public mapping (a
#Nissue/PR reference) later. - Don't introduce dependencies without checking the project's existing stack — extra deps need explicit justification.
- Don't suggest
--no-verifyto skip the local commit-message hook except in maintainer-approved emergencies.
When you're unsure
Default to omitting the uncertain reference. Ask the maintainer in a PR comment or a draft message. The local commit-message hook gives you a fast feedback loop on commit-message hygiene; pay attention to its output.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +22 tokens per session eb1098645132
- 2mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 444 tokens per session scan A e997d50c38c5
engrava copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sovantica/engrava (12 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 466 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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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