mind-mem: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

mind-mem copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from star-ga/mind-mem. It costs 58 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for mind-mem, a tool that stores and retrieves persistent project memory for coding assistants.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to load memory before answering, preserve architecture decisions, and submit new decisions through the required update process.
Why use it?
They ensure the assistant checks existing decisions and follows the repository’s process for proposing changes to those decisions.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is star-ga/mind-mem's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on mind-mem 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 mind-mem configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to star-ga/mind-mem. 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/star-ga/mind-mem/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/star-ga/mind-mem

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 58 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 58 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00023
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00012
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00006

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9cf0e67eadff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mind-mem 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 4 lines

What it actually says

mind-mem: GitHub Copilot workspace instructions

This repository uses mind-mem for persistent memory. Before answering, consult memory with mm inject --agent copilot. Respect ADR / DECISION blocks; route new decisions through propose_update rather than modifying them directly.

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 · 4 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 9cf0e67eadff

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mind-mem copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository star-ga/mind-mem (18 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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