Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to tfutils/tfscaffold. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tfutils/tfscaffold/master/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tfutils/tfscaffoldWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/tfutils/tfscaffold/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/tfutils/tfscaffold/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tfutils/tfscaffold/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/tfutils/tfscaffold/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tfutils/tfscaffold/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00233 | $0.00233 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00093 | $0.00093 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00047 | $0.00047 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00023 | $0.00023 |
Grade A, and why
tfscaffold 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.
This is a copy
91% identical to tfenv copilot-instructions.md — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
What it actually says
Copilot Instructions — tfscaffold
This file is intentionally minimal. The canonical source for project
architecture, conventions, and agent guidelines is AGENTS.md
at the repository root.
Auto-Loaded Instructions
Language-specific coding standards are in .github/instructions/ and use
applyTo frontmatter to load automatically when editing matching files:
| File | Applies To | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
bash.instructions.md |
**/*.sh |
Bash coding standards |
Agent Definitions
Agent definitions live in .github/agents/ as .agent.md files. Each agent
has a YAML frontmatter block with description, tools, model, and
argument-hint fields.
Key References
- AGENTS.md — master context: project overview, core principles, conventions, work type ownership, essential commands
- SECURITY.md — vulnerability reporting policy
- docs/adr/ — Architecture Decision Records
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 · 28 lines · 233 tokens per session scan A 8ae89c68be3a
tfscaffold copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tfutils/tfscaffold (282 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 233 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to tfenv copilot-instructions.md, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.
tfscaffold copilot-instructions.md compared with instructions from other repositories
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tfscaffold copilot-instructions.mdtfutils/tfscaffold | Instructions file | 282 | 18d ago | MIT | A | 233 | GitHub Copilot |
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| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |