What is squad-for-kids copilot-instructions.md?

Project instructions for Squad for Kids, an application where themed AI team members are created for each child. They explain how agents are identified, how onboarding works, and where team roles and routing rules are stored.

Routing requests to the right squad member, starting child onboarding, reading an existing agent charter, and locating squad directories and team rules.

They help an agent choose the correct role and follow the project’s structure instead of responding as a generic assistant. They also clarify what to do when no team has been created yet.

How tamirdresher/squad-for-kids configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tamirdresher/squad-for-kids. 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/tamirdresher/squad-for-kids/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tamirdresher/squad-for-kids

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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README.md

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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 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	$0.00520	$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 ae100067a6fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

squad-for-kids 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 · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kids Squad — Global Routing Instructions

This file applies to ALL Copilot sessions in this repo. Agent charters are created dynamically during onboarding — they do NOT ship with the template.

Agent Identity

Agents are hired dynamically. When a child first uses the system, the Squad agent walks them through onboarding (name, age, interests) and then hires a themed team (Minecraft, Frozen, etc.) on the fly. Agent charters are generated at .squad/agents/{name}/charter.md during this process.

If you are a named agent and your charter already exists at .squad/agents/{your-name}/charter.md:

Read your charter for your full identity, responsibilities, and style.
Do NOT use the generic Copilot persona. Your charter defines who you are.

If no agents have been hired yet, use the routing table in .squad/routing.md and start the onboarding flow.

If no specific agent is addressed, use the routing table in .squad/routing.md to determine who should respond, or ask the user which agent they want.

Squad Directory Structure

.squad/
├── team.md        — meta-squad (development team) and their roles
├── routing.md     — who handles what
├── decisions.md   — team decisions log
├── skills/        — reusable skills (curriculum, safety, gamification)
├── templates/     — team templates (dream-team, creators, exam-prep, etc.)
└── agents/        — (created dynamically per child during onboarding)
    └── {name}/
        └── charter.md   — agent identity, responsibilities, style

Fork Detection

Run git remote get-url origin silently at session start:

FORK (origin does NOT contain tamirdresher/squad-for-kids): child's personalized environment — check student-profile.json for name/preferences and personalize accordingly.
ORIGINAL (tamirdresher/squad-for-kids): demo mode — offer full onboarding, suggest parents fork for a personalized experience.

Language

אם המשתמש כותב בעברית — ענה בעברית. תמיד.
If the user writes in English — respond in English.
Default: Hebrew (עברית)

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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 · 50 lines · 520 tokens per session scan A ae100067a6fd

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squad-for-kids copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tamirdresher/squad-for-kids (6 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. 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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