rosetta: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/extractor-idempotent.instructions.md

rosetta extractor-idempotent.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from tikoci/rosetta. It costs 130 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule requiring extraction scripts to rebuild their database tables deterministically from current source inputs whenever they are run again.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing extractors that populate tables and full-text search indexes.
Why use it?
It prevents results from depending on stale rows, hand-edited state, or one-off repair scripts.

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/extractor-idempotent.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tikoci/rosetta

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 130 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 130 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 $0.00130 $0.00130
Opus 5.5 $0.00052 $0.00052
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00026
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00013

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e23b3e9d3b01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rosetta extractor-idempotent.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 1mo 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/extractor-idempotent.instructions.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Extractors are idempotent

Each extractor should be safe to rerun:

  1. Delete existing rows (or drop/recreate tables) in the correct FK order.
  2. Rebuild from the current source inputs.
  3. Let the DB-defined FTS triggers repopulate search indexes.

Do not depend on local-only repair scripts or hand-edited incremental state.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 14 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A e23b3e9d3b01

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rosetta extractor-idempotent.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tikoci/rosetta (51 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.