AgentStack github-actions-ci-cd-best-practices.instructions.md

A guide to building secure and reliable CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions. CI/CD automates checking, testing, and delivering code as it changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing GitHub Actions workflows, including environment variables, matrix testing, and release deployment.
Why use it?
It explains how to structure workflows and handle common concerns such as secrets, caching, testing, and deployment.

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/ssdeanx/agentstack/github-actions-ci-cd-best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ssdeanx/AgentStack

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 10,873 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 10,873 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan E 2 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 $0.10873 $0.10873
Opus 5 $0.05437 $0.05437
Sonnet 5 $0.02175 $0.02175
Haiku 4.5 $0.01087 $0.01087

Measured 2d ago against content hash d0f1ee9dce01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade E, and why

AgentStack github-actions-ci-cd-best-practices.instructions.md scanned grade E with 2 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- End of GitHub Actions CI/CD Best Practices Instructions -->

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- Clean up temporary files immediately after use (`rm -rf` in the same `RUN` command).
.github/instructions/github-actions-ci-cd-best-practices.instructions.md · 643 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 · 643 lines · 10,873 tokens per session scan E d0f1ee9dce01

Subscribe to this mod's changes

AgentStack github-actions-ci-cd-best-practices.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ssdeanx/AgentStack (44 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 10,873 tokens to every session, about $0.0544 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it E with 2 findings (hidden instructions, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.