What is Copilot-Skills git-ops.instructions.md?

Guidance for Git version control tasks such as commits, merges, rebases, branches, and pull requests, which are requests to combine or share code changes.

Use it when checking repository state, preparing commits, synchronizing branches, resolving conflicts, or managing GitHub changes.

It adds safety checks around operations that can alter project history or send changes to a shared repository.

How TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

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.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills/main/.github/instructions/git-ops.instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 1,811 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,811 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	$0.01811	$0.01811
Opus 5.5	$0.00724	$0.00724
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00362	$0.00362
Haiku 4.5	$0.00181	$0.00181

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5c6a3ee4749b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Copilot-Skills git-ops.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 1mo 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/instructions/git-ops.instructions.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git Operations - Automatic Context Instructions

Related Prompt: /git-ops
Related Skill: .github/copilot-skills/git-ops/SKILL.md

Triggers: git, commit, merge, rebase, push, pull, branch, checkout, stash, conflict, github, pull request, PR, force push

Context: Git Version Control Operations

When working with Git-related files or when user queries contain version control keywords, this context is automatically activated.

Core Principles

Safety First

Always check status before destructive operations
Create backups before force operations or history rewrites
Verify branch before pushing or merging
Preview changes with --dry-run flags when available

Professional Workflow

Atomic commits - One logical change per commit
Descriptive messages - Use conventional commit format
Feature branches - Never commit directly to main/master
Pull before push - Always sync with remote first

Default Behaviors

When user mentions "commit"

Suggest /git-ops skill prompt
Run git status to show current state
Use conventional commit format: type(scope): message
Validate commit message length and format
Check for common mistakes (large files, secrets, debug code)

When user mentions "merge" or "rebase"

Suggest /git-ops skill prompt
Check current branch (prevent accidental main branch operations)
Verify working directory is clean
Show merge/rebase preview
Prepare conflict resolution strategy

When user mentions "push" or "force"

Suggest /git-ops skill prompt with safety warnings
Load .github/copilot-skills/git-ops/safety.md for force push guidelines
Verify remote branch state
Use --force-with-lease instead of --force
Confirm push target is correct

When user mentions "conflict"

Suggest /git-ops skill prompt
Show conflict files with git status
Use bundled script: .github/copilot-skills/git-ops/scripts/conflict_resolver.sh
Explain merge markers and resolution strategies

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 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.

1mo ago First seen · 246 lines · 1,811 tokens per session scan A 5c6a3ee4749b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Copilot-Skills git-ops.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills (3 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,811 tokens to every session, about $0.0072 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.

Commits Git and workflow claude-skills copilot github skills

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

Copilot-Skills: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot