aix copilot-instructions.md

A guide for contributors to aix, a Go command-line tool that defines and deploys coding-assistant skills, tool servers, and slash commands across different platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps set up the project, understand platform-specific adapters, build the CLI, run tests, and work with its configuration and document parsers.
Why use it?
It explains the repository structure, prerequisites, architecture, and development commands so contributors can change the correct parts consistently.

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 1,820 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,820 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 $0.01820 $0.01820
Opus 5 $0.00910 $0.00910
Sonnet 5 $0.00364 $0.00364
Haiku 4.5 $0.00182 $0.00182

Measured 2d ago against content hash 82bd73af0374, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aix copilot-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 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.

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/copilot-instructions.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Instructions for aix

Repository Overview

aix is a unified Go CLI for managing AI coding assistant configurations across multiple platforms (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI). It provides a platform-agnostic way to define and deploy skills, MCP servers, and slash commands.

  • Size: ~1.2MB, 59 Go source files
  • Language: Go 1.25.5
  • Architecture: CLI tool using Cobra, adapter pattern for platform-specific implementations
  • Key Dependencies: spf13/cobra, spf13/viper, adrg/frontmatter, gopkg.in/yaml.v3

Repository Structure

aix/
|-- cmd/aix/              # CLI entry point - main.go and commands/
|-- internal/             # Private packages (NOT importable externally)
 |   |-- config/           # Configuration management
 |   |-- errors/           # Error handling utilities
 |   |-- logging/          # Logging utilities
 |   |-- paths/            # Path resolution for platform configs
 |   `--- platform/         # Platform adapters (claude/, opencode/)
|-- pkg/                  # Public packages (importable)
 |   `--- frontmatter/      # YAML frontmatter parser
|-- docs/adr/             # Architecture Decision Records (see ADR-001)
|-- .github/workflows/    # CI/CD pipelines (ci.yml, codeql.yml, release.yml)
|-- .golangci.yml         # Linter configuration
|-- .pre-commit-config.yaml  # Pre-commit hooks (requires local tools)
`--- .beads/               # Issue tracker (bd CLI)

Build, Test, and Lint Commands

Prerequisites

  • Go 1.25.5+ (specified in go.mod)
  • Dependencies are automatically downloaded on first build

Build

go build ./cmd/aix              # Build CLI binary -> ./aix
go build ./...                  # Build all packages (verification only)
go build -v -o aix cmd/aix/main.go  # Verbose build with custom output name

First build downloads dependencies (~30 seconds). Subsequent builds are fast (<5 seconds).

Test

go test ./...                   # Run all tests (ALWAYS use this)
go test -v -race ./...          # Verbose with race detection (CI requirement)
go test -cover ./...            # With coverage report
go test ./internal/platform/... # Test specific package

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 2d ago First seen · 199 lines · 1,820 tokens per session scan A 82bd73af0374

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aix copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository thoreinstein/aix (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,820 tokens to every session, about $0.0091 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 2026-08-30.