rosetta: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/where-does-this-go.instructions.md

rosetta where-does-this-go.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from tikoci/rosetta. It costs 334 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A filing guide that assigns each kind of project information to one place, such as GitHub issues, design notes, the backlog, or release notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding where to record a new requirement, research result, architecture decision, operating procedure, validation rule, or shipped change.
Why use it?
It prevents decisions, research, procedures, and work commitments from being duplicated or stored in the wrong file.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

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/where-does-this-go.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tikoci/rosetta

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 334 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 334 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 $0.00334 $0.00334
Opus 5.5 $0.00134 $0.00134
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00067 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00033

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d8f753c5d883, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rosetta where-does-this-go.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/where-does-this-go.instructions.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Where does this go?

Use one canonical home for each kind of information:

  • Committed codebase work → a GitHub issue. Issues start as discussion; add the agent-ready label only once acceptance criteria are settled. umbrella = theme tracking issue, blocked = waiting on a named event. PRs close issues via Closes #N (see issue-pr-linking.instructions.md). tasks/ is a frozen archive — never add new T-*.md files.
  • Grounded research or decision support → briefings/B-*.md
  • Loose thought with no shape yet → BACKLOG.md Inbox
  • Waiting on a specific external event → BACKLOG.md Triggers
  • Durable rationale or architecture tradeoff → DESIGN.md
  • Operator, install, release, or re-extraction procedure → MANUAL.md
  • Project orientation and routing map → CLAUDE.md
  • User-visible shipped behavior → CHANGELOG.md
  • Load-bearing invariant and proof → VALIDATION.md
  • Agent-specific entrypoint shim → AGENTS.md or .github/copilot-instructions.md, pointing back to CLAUDE.md

Other files should point at the canonical home, not restate it.

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 · 21 lines · 334 tokens per session scan A d8f753c5d883

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rosetta where-does-this-go.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tikoci/rosetta (51 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 334 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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.