CodeStory: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

CodeStory copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from TheGreenCedar/CodeStory. It costs 67 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for using CodeStory to answer questions about a codebase. CodeStory is a repository-grounding tool that helps an agent understand project code before making claims or planning changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before explaining source code, planning edits, selecting tests, or reviewing changes in this repository; if unavailable, inspect the source directly.
Why use it?
It reduces guesses about the source code and helps choose relevant edits and tests based on the repository's actual structure.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is TheGreenCedar/CodeStory's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on CodeStory 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 CodeStory configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 67 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 67 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 $0.00067 $0.00067
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00027
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00013
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00007

Measured 27d ago against content hash be6d22f6fa77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

CodeStory 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 27d 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 · 6 lines

What it actually says

CodeStory Grounding

Read and follow the canonical codestory-grounding skill before repository work. It is the sole source of truth for CodeStory tool routing and evidence boundaries. This instruction file adds no parallel contract.

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. 27d ago Changed · -5 lines · -72 tokens per session be6d22f6fa77
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 11 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A 657ffb1a7323

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CodeStory copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TheGreenCedar/CodeStory (37 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session, about $0.0003 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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