Copilot-Skills: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/servicenow-docs.instructions.md

Copilot-Skills servicenow-docs.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills. It costs 2,066 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Automatic context for researching ServiceNow documentation, a reference source for an enterprise platform used for incidents, changes, requests, workflows, and service catalogs. It guides searches and documentation lookups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up ServiceNow features, REST APIs, incident or change management, workflow tools, and related documentation.
Why use it?
It helps turn a general ServiceNow question into a targeted documentation search and points to relevant page content and APIs.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on Copilot-Skills 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 Copilot-Skills configures →

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/servicenow-docs.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 2,066 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,066 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 $0.02066 $0.02066
Opus 5 $0.01033 $0.01033
Sonnet 5 $0.00413 $0.00413
Haiku 4.5 $0.00207 $0.00207

Measured 8d ago against content hash d5d5b913cf56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Copilot-Skills servicenow-docs.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 8d 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/servicenow-docs.instructions.md · 299 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 299 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ServiceNow Documentation - Automatic Context Instructions

Related Prompt: /servicenow-docs
Related Skill: .github/copilot-skills/documentation/servicenow-docs/README.md

Triggers: servicenow, documentation lookup, docs search, servicenow api, incident management, change management, itsm, hrsd, workflow, flow designer, service catalog, rest api

Context: ServiceNow Documentation Research

When working with ServiceNow-related files or when user queries contain ServiceNow documentation keywords, this context is automatically activated.

Default Behaviors

When user mentions "servicenow docs" or "servicenow documentation"

  1. Suggest /servicenow-docs skill prompt
  2. Load MCP tool reference
  3. Provide guided workflow based on user goal
  4. Help construct appropriate search queries

When user mentions "search servicenow" or "find servicenow docs"

  1. Start with search_servicenow() (searches actual page content)
  2. Provide relevant URLs from search results
  3. Offer to get full page content if needed
  4. Suggest related searches based on results

When user mentions "incident", "change", "request", "itsm"

  1. Load ITSM-specific documentation patterns
  2. Reference incident/change/problem management bundles
  3. Provide process documentation links
  4. Suggest workflow automation resources

When user mentions "workflow", "flow design", or "flow designer"

  1. Load workflow design patterns and best practices
  2. Reference platform development bundles
  3. Link to code examples and templates
  4. Suggest Flow Designer documentation

When user mentions "rest api" or "servicenow api"

  1. Load API reference patterns
  2. Search for API documentation
  3. Provide endpoint examples
  4. Link to authentication and integration guides

When user mentions "service catalog" or "catalog item"

  1. Load service catalog configuration patterns
  2. Reference catalog management documentation
  3. Provide item creation guides
  4. Suggest catalog portal customization resources

Read the full file on GitHub · 299 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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 299 lines · 2,066 tokens per session scan A d5d5b913cf56

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Copilot-Skills servicenow-docs.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TheSethRose/Copilot-Skills (3 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,066 tokens to every session, about $0.0103 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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