Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills. 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/TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills/main/.github/instructions/generate-instructions.instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSethRose/Copilot-SkillsWrote 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/thesethrose/copilot-skills/generate-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/thesethrose/copilot-skills/generate-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/thesethrose/copilot-skills/generate-instructions.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.01466 | $0.01466 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00733 | $0.00733 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00293 | $0.00293 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00147 | $0.00147 |
Grade A, and why
Copilot-Skills generate-instructions.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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Generate Instructions - Automatic Context Instructions
Related Prompt: /generate-instructions
Related Skill: .github/copilot-skills/copilot-instructions-generator/SKILL.md
Triggers: generate instructions, copilot-instructions, discover patterns, AI instructions, cursor instructions, create instructions, codebase analysis
Context: AI Instructions Generation and Codebase Analysis
When working with AI instruction files or when user queries contain analysis/generation keywords, this context is automatically activated.
Default Behaviors
When user mentions "generate instructions" or "copilot-instructions"
- Suggest
/generate-instructionsskill prompt - Load
.github/copilot-skills/copilot-instructions-generator/SKILL.md - Use bundled scripts for automated analysis
- Generate structured output based on project patterns
When user mentions "update instructions" or "refresh AI context"
- Analyze changes since last generation
- Preserve manual customizations
- Merge new patterns with existing instructions
- Maintain instruction file structure
When editing existing instruction files
- Preserve YAML frontmatter format
- Follow instruction file conventions
- Respect applyTo pattern syntax
- Maintain cross-references to skills/prompts
Quality Guidelines
✅ Do
- Analyze project structure before generating
- Respect
.gitignorepatterns (exclude external code) - Detect framework and language conventions
- Include code style patterns (naming, formatting)
- Reference external documentation when relevant
- Preserve manual edits during updates
- Use consistent section structure
- Include decision-making guidance
❌ Don't
- Generate instructions for third-party code (node_modules, venv, etc.)
- Include sensitive information (API keys, credentials)
- Create overly generic instructions
- Duplicate framework documentation
- Ignore existing project conventions
- Generate without analyzing first
- Overwrite manual customizations
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 · 237 lines · 1,466 tokens per session scan A 84bb205fd7b6
Copilot-Skills generate-instructions.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills (3 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,466 tokens to every session, about $0.0073 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 2026-08-31.
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