tools-cli: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

tools-cli copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from TALXIS/tools-cli. It costs 143 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for an AI coding assistant working on TALXIS CLI, a .NET command-line tool for automating tasks in code repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when suggesting or changing C# and .NET code in the TALXIS CLI repository, especially when code needs clear structure or comments.
Why use it?
They give the assistant project context and coding rules, reducing the risk of inconsistent style, duplicated code, lost documentation, or incorrect tool names.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 143 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 143 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 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00143 $0.00143
Opus 5.5 $0.00057 $0.00057
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00014

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f0c03bbd8392, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tools-cli 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 · 14 lines

What it actually says

Copilot Instructions for TALXIS CLI (txc)

Project Overview

This repository contains the TALXIS CLI, a .NET global tool (alias: txc). The CLI is designed to help developers automate tasks and execute other useful operations over their local code repositories.

Instructions for Copilot

  1. Do not remove comments or documentation.
  2. Always use the txc alias when referring to the CLI tool.
  3. When suggesting code, ensure it adheres to the .NET coding standards and practices.
  4. Document hard to understand code sections with comments.
  5. Do not duplicate code. Always separate concerns and use appropriate design patterns (SOLID/DRY).
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 · 14 lines · 143 tokens per session scan A f0c03bbd8392

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tools-cli copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TALXIS/tools-cli (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 143 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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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