What is gitlab-mcp copilot-instructions.md?

Project instructions for a GitLab MCP server, which gives coding agents standardized access to GitLab through the Model Context Protocol.

Use them when working on this TypeScript project with Yarn 4, especially when creating commits that must follow Conventional Commits rules.

They make the project's structure and commit requirements explicit, reducing incorrectly formatted commits and inconsistent changes.

How structured-world/gitlab-mcp configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to structured-world/gitlab-mcp. 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/structured-world/gitlab-mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/structured-world/gitlab-mcp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 1,050 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,050 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin fork From a forked repository.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01050	$0.01050
Opus 5.5	$0.00420	$0.00420
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00210	$0.00210
Haiku 4.5	$0.00105	$0.00105

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 4338380d13bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitlab-mcp 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 2mo 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 · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Copilot Instructions for gitlab-mcp

Project Overview

This is a GitLab MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides GitLab API access through standardized MCP tools. The project uses TypeScript, Yarn 4, and follows strict coding standards.

Commit Message Rules (CRITICAL)

ALL commits MUST follow Conventional Commits format:

<type>(scope): <description>

Required Commit Types

Type	Description	Version Bump
`feat`	New feature or capability	Minor
`fix`	Bug fix	Patch
`docs`	Documentation only	None
`style`	Code style/formatting	None
`refactor`	Code restructuring	Patch
`perf`	Performance improvement	Patch
`test`	Adding/fixing tests	None
`chore`	Maintenance tasks	None
`ci`	CI/CD changes	None
`build`	Build system changes	None
`revert`	Revert previous commit	Patch

Commit Message Guidelines

Type is REQUIRED - Never omit the type prefix
Use imperative mood - "Add feature" not "Added feature"
Keep subject under 72 characters
Do NOT end with period
Scope is optional but recommended - e.g., feat(webhooks):, fix(mrs):

FORBIDDEN Commit Messages

These patterns will FAIL CI validation:

Initial plan - Missing type
Update file.ts - Missing type
WIP - Use wip: type instead
Fix stuff - Too vague, needs scope
Any message starting with emoji without type

Good Examples

feat(webhooks): add webhook management tools
fix(labels): resolve null pointer in label handler
test(integration): add CRUD lifecycle tests for webhooks
refactor(schemas): extract validation to shared utility
docs(readme): document webhook event types
chore(deps): update dependencies
ci(workflows): add conventional commits validation

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 114 lines · 1,050 tokens per session scan A 4338380d13bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitlab-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository structured-world/gitlab-mcp (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,050 tokens to every session, about $0.0042 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It comes from a forked repository.

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