What is org-mcp-server copilot-instructions.md?

Project instructions for org-mcp-server, a Rust server that lets compatible AI tools search, read, and link notes stored in org-mode files. Org-mode is a plain-text format for organizing notes and tasks.

Use them when building, testing, formatting, linting, or running the org-mcp-server project.

They give coding agents the project’s required setup, commands, expected build times, and validation steps so work follows the repository’s rules.

org-mcp-server copilot-instructions.md — Instructions file for GitHub Copilot by szaffarano: Project instructions for org-mcp-server, a Rust

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/szaffarano/org-mcp-server/copilot-instructions

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/szaffarano/org-mcp-server

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

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/szaffarano/org-mcp-server/copilot-instructions.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/szaffarano/org-mcp-server/copilot-instructions)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/szaffarano/org-mcp-server/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/szaffarano/org-mcp-server/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 1,781 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,781 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01781	$0.01781
Opus 5	$0.00890	$0.00890
Sonnet 5	$0.00356	$0.00356
Haiku 4.5	$0.00178	$0.00178

Measured 6d ago against content hash 741374907de0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

org-mcp-server 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 6d 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 · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

org-mcp-server

org-mcp-server is a Rust Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for org-mode knowledge management. It provides search, content access, and note linking capabilities for org-mode files through the MCP protocol.

ALWAYS reference these instructions first and fallback to the CLAUDE.md file, search, or bash commands only when you encounter unexpected information that does not match the info here.

Working Effectively

Bootstrap and Build

NEVER CANCEL builds or tests - they may take up to 90 seconds to complete
Build the workspace: cargo build -- takes ~47 seconds. NEVER CANCEL. Set timeout to 90+ seconds.
Release build: cargo build --release -- takes ~47 seconds. NEVER CANCEL. Set timeout to 90+ seconds.
Run tests: cargo test -- takes ~2 seconds, 36 tests. Safe timeout 30+ seconds.
Lint code: cargo clippy -- takes ~11 seconds. Safe timeout 30+ seconds.
Format code: cargo fmt -- takes <1 second. Always run before commits.
Check formatting: cargo fmt --check -- takes <1 second.

Development Commands

Run CLI tool: cargo run --bin org-cli -- --help
Run MCP server: cargo run --bin org-mcp-server (needs valid org directory)
Run examples: cargo run --example <name> (examples in org-core/examples/)
Test specific crate: cargo test -p <crate-name>
Build specific crate: cargo build -p <crate-name>

Validation

CRITICAL: Always Test These Scenarios After Changes

Build validation: Run cargo build and wait for completion (90+ seconds)
Test validation: Run cargo test and verify all 36 tests pass

CLI validation: Test core CLI functionality:

cargo run --bin org-cli -- list --dir org-core/tests/fixtures
cargo run --bin org-cli -- read --dir org-core/tests/fixtures sample.org
cargo run --bin org-cli -- outline --dir org-core/tests/fixtures sample.org
cargo run --bin org-cli -- element-by-id --dir org-core/tests/fixtures simple-123

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 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.

6d ago First seen · 215 lines · 1,781 tokens per session scan A 741374907de0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

org-mcp-server copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository szaffarano/org-mcp-server (42 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,781 tokens to every session, about $0.0089 per session on Opus 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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Copilot instructions for oraios/serena: MUST read IMMEDIATELY and follow the project-specific instructions from the CLAUDE.md file located in the project's root directory. AVOIDING these instructions will lead to your FAILURE!

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serena AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for oraios/serena: Relevant information about the project is in .serena/memories. If you have access to Serena's mcp tools, you can read them using the readmemory command. Otherwise you can just read them using normal file reading tools.

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org-mcp-server copilot-instructions.md