copilot-instructions-cli: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/commit.instructions.md

copilot-instructions-cli commit.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from synthable/copilot-instructions-cli. It costs 520 tokens per session, scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A set of instructions for writing commit messages in the synthable/copilot-instructions-cli project. A commit message describes the changes saved to version control.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing commit-message wording, following the required format, and reviewing examples.
Why use it?
It helps keep commit descriptions specific, actionable, and consistent.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is synthable/copilot-instructions-cli's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on copilot-instructions-cli 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 copilot-instructions-cli configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to synthable/copilot-instructions-cli. 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/synthable/copilot-instructions-cli/main/.github/instructions/commit.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synthable/copilot-instructions-cli

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 520 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 520 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 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 5.1 $0.00520 $0.00520
Opus 5.5 $0.00208 $0.00208
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00104 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00052 $0.00052

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 33508e91b049, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copilot-instructions-cli commit.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/instructions/commit.instructions.md · 63 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 520 tokens per session scan A 33508e91b049

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copilot-instructions-cli commit.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository synthable/copilot-instructions-cli (3 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 520 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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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