Copilot-Skills react.instructions.md

Instructions for React, a JavaScript library for building user interfaces from reusable components. They automatically apply to JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, and TSX files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when creating, changing, testing, or debugging React components and applications.
Why use it?
They give the coding agent consistent guidance on React patterns, naming, type-safe code, error handling, and maintainable implementation.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/thesethrose/copilot-skills/react
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 272 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 272 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00272 $0.00272
Opus 5 $0.00136 $0.00136
Sonnet 5 $0.00054 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00027

Measured yesterday against content hash 2bf2ae69aa3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Copilot-Skills react.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 yesterday.

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/react.instructions.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

React Instructions

Auto-loaded when: Working with files matching: **/*.jsx, **/*.tsx, **/*.js, **/*.ts

Default Behaviors

When working with react:

  1. Follow Official Patterns: Use patterns from official react documentation
  2. Code Quality: Follow react best practices and conventions
  3. Error Handling: Implement robust error handling appropriate for react
  4. Documentation: Include inline comments for complex react usage

Common Workflows

Setup & Installation

Check references/getting_started.md for:

  • Installation steps
  • Configuration options
  • Initial setup

Development

  1. Reference official documentation patterns
  2. Use type-safe code when applicable
  3. Follow react naming conventions
  4. Test thoroughly

Debugging

Common issues and solutions documented in references/ files.

Quality Guidelines

  • ✅ Use official react APIs and patterns
  • ✅ Follow community best practices
  • ✅ Write maintainable, readable code
  • ✅ Include error handling
  • ⚠️ Avoid deprecated features
  • ⚠️ Don't bypass react safety features

Resources

  • Skill prompt: .github/prompts/react.skill.prompt.md
  • References: .github/copilot-skills/frontend/react/references/
  • Official docs: https://react.dev/
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. yesterday First seen · 48 lines · 272 tokens per session scan A 2bf2ae69aa3c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Copilot-Skills react.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills (3 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 272 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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.