prompt-pro copilot-instructions.md

prompt-pro copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from timothywarner-org/prompt-pro. It costs 731 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of repository-specific instructions for the Prompt Pro course materials, including their structure, fictional examples, and editing rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or changing course content, locating the correct segment, or deciding which repository files and scripts are safe to use.
Why use it?
It helps keep new content consistent with the course's purpose, section layout, Contoso Robotics scenario, and restrictions on vendored material.

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/timothywarner-org/prompt-pro/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timothywarner-org/prompt-pro

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 731 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 731 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 $0.00731 $0.00731
Opus 5 $0.00365 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00146 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00073 $0.00073

Measured 5d ago against content hash 64f5828d74dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompt-pro 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 5d 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 · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

prompt-pro AI guidance

Purpose and scope

  • This is a content-first repository. It backs Tim Warner's O'Reilly Live Learning course How to Prompt Like a Pro (4 x 50-minute segments).
  • The course teaches Warner's 26 Laws of Generative AI, split 7-7-8-4 across the four segments (see ../WARNERS-LAWS.md).
  • All demo content uses the fictional Contoso Robotics scenario (mid-size robotics manufacturer, 500 employees, $120M revenue, Austin TX, CEO Maria Chen). Keep new demo material consistent with this fiction.
  • There is no top-level application. The root package.json is a legacy stub - do not run its start/dev/test scripts.

Repository layout

  • segments/segment-1-identity-mindset-context/ - Laws 1-7, Contoso scenario data and demos.
  • segments/segment-2-context-sculpting-technique/ - Laws 8-14, few-shot, chain-of-thought, role-play.
  • segments/segment-3-workflow-multimodal-security/ - Laws 15-22, custom instructions, prompt versioning, privacy audits (includes a vendored knowledge/ subfolder of Microsoft Learn content - do not edit it).
  • segments/segment-4-agentic-orchestration/ - Laws 23-26, LLM matching, subagents, checkpoints.
  • docs/ - Long-form reference guides and the master slide deck.
  • images/ - Cover art and social preview (optimized PNG/JPG).

Drop new material into the matching segment folder rather than introducing parallel directories.

The only runnable code

The single piece of executable code is the MCP server under segments/segment-4-agentic-orchestration/mcp-demos/weather-server/:

  • npm install - install @modelcontextprotocol/sdk and zod.
  • npm start - run the MCP server (node server.js).
  • npm run inspect - launch MCP Inspector against the local server.

Everything else in the repo is Markdown lesson content, reference docs, or assets.

Authoring rules

  • Two-space list indentation; keep a blank line before and after headings, lists, and fenced code blocks (enforced by ../markdownlint.json).
  • Sentence-case headings; kebab-case directories and filenames.
  • Prefer short sections with tables or callouts so lessons stay scannable on screen shares.
  • Use relative links for assets and cross-references.
  • Never embed real API keys in lesson text. Reference env.example and remind learners to set their own environment variables.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 51 lines · 731 tokens per session scan A 64f5828d74dd

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prompt-pro copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository timothywarner-org/prompt-pro (47 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 731 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 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.