copilot-instructions: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/authoritative-sources.instructions.md

copilot-instructions authoritative-sources.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions. It costs 660 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of repository instructions for deciding which information to trust when answering technical questions or making changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resolve technical uncertainty, identify the right official documentation, and handle areas such as APIs, security, infrastructure, and framework behavior.
Why use it?
It keeps project-specific rules first and directs the agent to official documentation when behavior depends on an external tool, platform, library, or changing version.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on copilot-instructions 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-instructions configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions. 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/ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions/main/.github/instructions/authoritative-sources.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 660 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 660 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00660 $0.00660
Opus 5 $0.00330 $0.00330
Sonnet 5 $0.00132 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00066 $0.00066

Measured 7d ago against content hash dd62a0be211a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copilot-instructions authoritative-sources.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 7d 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/authoritative-sources.instructions.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

  • Define the single repository-wide policy for resolving technical uncertainty with repository context first and authoritative documentation second.
  • Keep the stack-to-domain mapping centralized in .github/governance/authoritative-source-map.json.
  • Prevent duplicated official documentation domain lists across domain instruction files.

Resolution Order

  1. Use repository context first for project-specific rules, architecture, scripts, templates, conventions, and operational decisions.
  2. If the question depends on external platform, framework, library, API, or tool behavior, consult the official documentation for the active stack.
  3. If the official documentation is incomplete, consult the official maintainer repository or project documentation.
  4. Community sources are fallback only and must not override repository rules or official vendor guidance.

When External Lookup Is Required

  • Version-specific or recently changed behavior
  • Security, authentication, authorization, privacy, compliance, or cryptography guidance
  • Infrastructure, platform, SDK, CLI, framework, or tooling behavior
  • Performance tuning guidance that depends on vendor/runtime specifics
  • API behavior, limits, defaults, or deployment/runtime constraints

Official Source Map

  • Use .github/governance/authoritative-source-map.json as the single source of truth for stack-specific official domains.
  • Prefer the narrowest matching stack entry instead of a broad vendor-wide search.
  • Do not copy or restate official documentation domain lists inside other instruction files unless an exception is explicitly justified.

Response Rules

  • State whether the conclusion came from repository context, official documentation, or inference.
  • If repository context conflicts with official documentation, follow repository context for internal rules and use official documentation only for external platform behavior.
  • For high-risk topics, prefer authoritative documentation over memory.
  • When authoritative documentation is unavailable or insufficient, say so explicitly before relying on inference or community material.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 7d ago First seen · 54 lines · 660 tokens per session scan A dd62a0be211a

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copilot-instructions authoritative-sources.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 660 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 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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