rosetta: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/descriptive-prose-file-names.instructions.md

rosetta descriptive-prose-file-names.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from tikoci/rosetta. It costs 129 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A file-naming rule for instruction files, tasks, and briefings that uses clear, sentence-like filenames describing their purpose.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when naming files in instruction, task, and briefing folders.
Why use it?
It makes the purpose of a file understandable from a directory listing, without opening it.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is tikoci/rosetta's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on rosetta 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 rosetta configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tikoci/rosetta. 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/tikoci/rosetta/main/.github/instructions/descriptive-prose-file-names.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tikoci/rosetta

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 129 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 129 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 5.1 $0.00129 $0.00129
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00064
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00026
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00013

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2bd9f689b684, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rosetta descriptive-prose-file-names.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 6d 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/descriptive-prose-file-names.instructions.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Descriptive prose filenames

Filename slugs should explain the rule or work item without opening the file.

  • Good: tool-surface-change.instructions.md, release-via-ci.instructions.md
  • Bad: mcp.md, docs.md, misc.instructions.md

Prefer sentence-like slugs that describe the topic, especially in .github/instructions/, tasks/, and briefings/.

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. 6d ago First seen · 13 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 2bd9f689b684

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rosetta descriptive-prose-file-names.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tikoci/rosetta (43 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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.