What is claude-code copilot-instructions.md?

Agent instructions for a Claude Code training repository covering command-line tools, MCP servers, custom skills, and multi-step AI workflows. MCP is a way for an AI agent to connect to external tools and data.

They are for learning or maintaining Claude Code examples, including CLI workflows, memory servers, reusable skills, agent loops, and permissions.

They give the agent the repository structure and workflows needed to work consistently across TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python parts.

claude-code copilot-instructions.md — Instructions file by timothywarner-org

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/timothywarner-org/claude-code/copilot-instructions

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timothywarner-org/claude-code

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 973 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 973 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00973	$0.00973
Opus 5	$0.00487	$0.00487
Sonnet 5	$0.00195	$0.00195
Haiku 4.5	$0.00097	$0.00097

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7ccd61a810dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code 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 · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code AI Agent Instructions

This document provides essential guidance for AI coding agents working in the Claude Code repository. It outlines the architecture, workflows, and conventions to ensure productive contributions.

Project Overview

Claude Code is a training repository for mastering Claude Code CLI, MCP servers, agentic workflows, and custom skills. It uses:

TypeScript/JavaScript: For CLI tools and agent workflows.
Python: For MCP server implementations.

Key components include:

Claude Code CLI: Terminal-based workflows for code review, refactoring, and automation.
MCP Memory Server: Persistent memory for decisions, entities, and relationships.
Custom Skills: Reusable slash commands for team automation.
Agent Workflows: Multi-step autonomous operations.

Repository Structure

segment_1_quickstart/ - Zero: install, CLI, first CLAUDE.md.
segment_2_context/ - Context: the CLAUDE.md hierarchy (user, project, subdirectory scopes).
segment_3_agents/ - Agents: the loop, permissions, subagents.
segment_4_hero/ - Hero: skills, hooks, and MCP. The Python FastMCP memory server is at segment_4_hero/memory_server/.
src/: Supporting Python MCP servers and TypeScript utilities (utils/).
scripts/: TypeScript and shell utility scripts for setup, security, and documentation.
.mcp.json: Project-scoped MCP servers the CLI reads on startup (microsoft-learn, oreilly-july20-documentmcp, oreilly-july20-memorymcp, github).
.claude/: Skills (.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md), subagents (.claude/agents/), and project settings.

Development Workflows

Setup

Install dependencies:
```
npm install
```
Verify environment:
```
npm run verify
```

Run

There is no npm run build step in this course. There is no root tsconfig.json; demos run via npx tsx (JIT compilation).
Run demo files directly:
```
npx tsx <path-to-file.ts>
```

Key Commands

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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.

2d ago First seen · 82 lines · 973 tokens per session scan A 7ccd61a810dc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-code copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository timothywarner-org/claude-code (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 973 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 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.

Memory and context

spec-kit AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for github/spec-kit, covering agents.md, about spec kit and specify, quickstart — add a new integration in 5 steps, integration architecture and integrationmanifest — file tracking.

github/spec-kit · 7,104 tokens

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 6,785 tokens

claude-code copilot-instructions.md