plan-forge: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/git-workflow.instructions.md

plan-forge git-workflow.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from srnichols/plan-forge. It costs 497 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for managing Git changes, commits, pushes, and conventional commit messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
They help prepare work, inspect or update the branch, choose commit types such as feature or bug fix, and remember to commit and push completed changes.
Why use it?
They give developers and coding agents a consistent way to check repository state and describe changes so project history stays understandable.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is srnichols/plan-forge's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on plan-forge 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 plan-forge configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to srnichols/plan-forge. 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/srnichols/plan-forge/master/.github/instructions/git-workflow.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/srnichols/plan-forge

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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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.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5.5 $0.00199 $0.00199
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00099 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00050 $0.00050

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e0aace78ec28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-forge git-workflow.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.

.github/instructions/git-workflow.instructions.md · 74 lines

What it actually says

Git Workflow

Applies to: ALL files


AI Agent Instructions

Before Starting Work

"Before we begin, ensure Git state is clean:
 1. Pull latest: git pull origin main
 2. Check status: git status
 3. Stash if needed: git stash"

After Completing Changes

"Changes complete! Commit and push:
 1. Stage: git add -A
 2. Commit: git commit -m '<type>(<scope>): <description>'
 3. Push: git push origin main"

Conventional Commit Format

<type>(<scope>): <short description>

[optional body]
[optional footer]

Commit Types

Type When to Use Example
feat New feature feat(auth): add OAuth2 login flow
fix Bug fix fix(api): resolve null reference in user lookup
perf Performance improvement perf(queries): add index for tenant lookups
refactor Code restructure (no behavior change) refactor(services): extract validation logic
docs Documentation only docs(readme): update setup instructions
test Adding/updating tests test(users): add integration tests for CRUD
chore Build, deps, config chore(deps): update dependencies
style Formatting only style(api): fix indentation
ci CI/CD changes ci(actions): add staging deploy workflow

Scope Examples

Use your project's module names:

auth, users, api, database, frontend, tests, docker, deploy, config, docs

When to Remind About Git

Scenario Action
New feature implemented Suggest feat: commit
Bug fixed Suggest fix: commit
Tests added Suggest test: commit
Docs updated Suggest docs: commit
3+ files modified Remind to commit
Starting new work Remind to pull first
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. 1mo ago First seen · 74 lines · 497 tokens per session scan A e0aace78ec28

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plan-forge git-workflow.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository srnichols/plan-forge (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 497 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 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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