copilot-compose copilot-instructions.md

A set of coding rules for the copilot-compose project, written in a file named copilot-instructions.md.

In plain words
What is it for?
For guiding TypeScript changes in the copilot-compose codebase, especially around type safety and module organisation.
Why use it?
It helps keep generated or edited TypeScript code consistent with the project's rules for strict types, null values, naming, imports, and structure.

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/thomasiverson/copilot-compose/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thomasiverson/copilot-compose

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 2,146 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,146 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.02146 $0.02146
Opus 5 $0.01073 $0.01073
Sonnet 5 $0.00429 $0.00429
Haiku 4.5 $0.00215 $0.00215

Measured 2d ago against content hash b3e6038fa260, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

copilot-compose copilot-instructions.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- DO NOT EDIT — This file is auto-generated by copilot-compose. Source: thomasiverson/copilot-instructions@main Config: .github/copilot-compose.yaml Generated: 2026-03-19T14:30:00Z Modules: typescript-strict, react-pa
examples/target-repo/.github/copilot-instructions.md · 207 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 207 lines · 2,146 tokens per session scan C b3e6038fa260

Subscribe to this mod's changes

copilot-compose copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository thomasiverson/copilot-compose (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 2,146 tokens to every session, about $0.0107 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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