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/new-project.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/new-project)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/thesethrose/copilot-skills/new-project"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/thesethrose/copilot-skills/new-project/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/thesethrose/copilot-skills/new-project"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/thesethrose/copilot-skills/new-project.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 | $0.01600 | $0.01600 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00640 | $0.00640 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00320 | $0.00320 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00160 | $0.00160 |
Grade A, and why
Copilot-Skills new-project.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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 244 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
New Project Creation - Automatic Context Instructions
Related Prompt: /new-project
Related Skill: .github/copilot-skills/skill-template/SKILL.md
Triggers: new project, create project, initialize, setup, scaffold, boilerplate, template, starter, project setup
Context: Project Creation and Scaffolding
When working with project configuration files or when user queries contain creation/initialization keywords, this context is automatically activated.
Core Principles
Project Setup Philosophy
- Convention over configuration - Follow ecosystem standards
- Minimal boilerplate - Only include what's necessary
- Clear structure - Organize files logically from day one
- Documentation first - README, .gitignore, and LICENSE before code
Quality Indicators
- Clean directory structure
- Proper dependency management
- Version control configured
- Development environment documented
- CI/CD pipeline ready
Default Behaviors
When user mentions "new project" or "create project"
- Suggest
/new-projectskill prompt for guided setup - Detect project type from context or ask explicitly
- Check for existing project files to avoid conflicts
- Use language/framework-specific best practices
When user mentions "initialize" or "setup"
- Suggest appropriate initialization commands:
- Node.js:
npm initorpnpm create - Python:
pip install -e .orpoetry init - Rust:
cargo init - Go:
go mod init
- Node.js:
- Create essential project files (.gitignore, README.md, LICENSE)
- Set up development tools (linters, formatters, pre-commit hooks)
When user mentions "scaffold" or "template"
- Reference
.github/copilot-skills/skill-template/SKILL.mdfor skill creation - Use framework-specific scaffolding tools:
- React:
create-react-app,vite - Next.js:
create-next-app - Django:
django-admin startproject - Flask: Manual structure with blueprints
- React:
- Apply framework conventions and best practices
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 · 244 lines · 1,600 tokens per session scan A e32f539874f6
Copilot-Skills new-project.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills (3 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,600 tokens to every session, about $0.0064 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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