copilot-dev: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

copilot-dev CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from timothywarner/copilot-dev. It costs 2,489 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for working on the Copilot Dev repository, which combines training materials with a Node.js demonstration app. It explains the repository layout and which files contain the most current information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing the repository, updating Copilot-related documentation, or changing the Node.js demo app. It also identifies the main files to check before changing current product information.
Why use it?
It helps an agent avoid confusing the course content with the demo application and prevents outdated Copilot details from being reintroduced.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is timothywarner/copilot-dev's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on copilot-dev 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 copilot-dev configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to timothywarner/copilot-dev. 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/timothywarner/copilot-dev/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timothywarner/copilot-dev

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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.

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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.

CLAUDE.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Repository Purpose

Teaching repository for GitHub Copilot for Developers — Tim Warner's 4-hour O'Reilly Live Training. Two things ship from here:

  1. Course materials — slide deck, course plan, tutorials, certification notes, news.
  2. A working Node demo app (/src) that doubles as the Segment 3 / 4 demo for the cloud agent, Custom Agents, and Agent Skills.

Treat the source of truth for "what's current in Copilot" as README.md and the newest COURSE_PLAN_*.md. They are refreshed every delivery (current: COURSE_PLAN_JULY_2026.md, verified 2026-07-21 — AI Credits now live, Copilot Max tier, GPT-5.6 family, Claude Sonnet 5 and Opus 4.8, cloud agent rename, Copilot Vision GA). When updating model names, prices, or feature GAs, update those two files first; this CLAUDE.md should stay structural.

Superseded material to never reintroduce: Copilot Extensions (disabled Nov 10, 2025), premium requests as the billing model (legacy since June 1, 2026), "coding agent" as the primary term (renamed to cloud agent in April 2026), and gh copilot as the agentic CLI (the package is @github/copilot).

Repository Layout

/                    README.md, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, COURSE_PLAN_*.md, *.pptx
/docs                Tutorials, info articles, reference inputs (NOT code)
  /docs/references   Microsoft Writing Style Guide + fictional-company pool
  /docs/certification GH-300 exam objectives and study notes
/src                 Node + Express demo app + sample data
/scripts             Helper scripts (PowerShell metrics report)
/.github             Copilot customization examples (also configures THIS repo)
/archive             Historical course materials — do not maintain unless explicitly asked

Convention: course plan + PPTX at root; prose under /docs; code under /src and /scripts. Don't put new tutorials at root.

Key Architectural Insight: .github/ is dual-purpose

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 2mo ago First seen · 137 lines · 2,489 tokens per session scan A 775b2f0fdfd1

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copilot-dev CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository timothywarner/copilot-dev (46 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,489 tokens to every session, about $0.0100 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.

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