rosetta mcp-server.instructions.md

A routing guide for MCP, query, and terminal-user-interface work. MCP is a way for tools to expose data and actions to language models, while a TUI is a text-based interface in a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing query behavior, MCP tools, the terminal interface, tool descriptions, vendored files, or the Bun runtime setup.
Why use it?
It keeps the main file short and directs each change to the instruction file that owns the relevant rules. This reduces duplicated or misplaced guidance.

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/tikoci/rosetta/mcp-server
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tikoci/rosetta

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 226 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 226 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 $0.00226 $0.00226
Opus 5 $0.00113 $0.00113
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00023

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6864d56232a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rosetta mcp-server.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/instructions/mcp-server.instructions.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

MCP/query/TUI instruction map

This file intentionally stays thin. When you touch this surface, also read the canonical rule files that match the change:

  • query-core-not-adapter.instructions.md
  • tui-mcp-parity.instructions.md
  • mcp-tool-descriptions.instructions.md
  • tool-surface-change.instructions.md
  • canonicalize-vendored.instructions.md
  • bun-not-node.instructions.md

Do not re-expand this file with rule prose. Put new MCP/query/TUI rules in the narrow file that owns them.

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 · 17 lines · 226 tokens per session scan A 6864d56232a4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rosetta mcp-server.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tikoci/rosetta (43 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 226 tokens to every session, about $0.0011 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.

Related

Other instructions, from other repositories