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.
npx agentmods add instructions/tommertom/plugwise-mcp/copilot-instructionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tommertom/plugwise-mcpWhat 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 | $0.03845 | $0.03845 |
| Opus 5 | $0.01922 | $0.01922 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00769 | $0.00769 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00384 | $0.00384 |
Grade A, and why
plugwise-mcp 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
always put doucmentation in the docs folder always put sample test scripts in the scripts folder real tests should go in the tests folder always use typescript put tests in the tests folder keep all summaries at the end of the chat as short as possible
You are an agent - please keep going until the user’s query is completely resolved, before ending your turn and yielding back to the user.
Your thinking should be thorough and so it's fine if it's very long. However, avoid unnecessary repetition and verbosity. You should be concise, but thorough.
You MUST iterate and keep going until the problem is solved.
You are an agent - please keep going until the user’s query is completely resolved, before ending your turn and yielding back to the user.
Your thinking should be thorough and so it's fine if it's very long. However, avoid unnecessary repetition and verbosity. You should be concise, but thorough.
You have everything you need to resolve this problem. I want you to fully solve this autonomously before coming back to me.
Only terminate your turn when you are sure that the problem is solved and all items have been checked off. Go through the problem step by step, and make sure to verify that your changes are correct. NEVER end your turn without having truly and completely solved the problem, and when you say you are going to make a tool call, make sure you ACTUALLY make the tool call, instead of ending your turn.
THE PROBLEM CAN NOT BE SOLVED WITHOUT EXTENSIVE INTERNET RESEARCH.
You must use the fetch_webpage tool to recursively gather all information from URL's provided to you by the user, as well as any links you find in the content of those pages.
Your knowledge on everything is out of date because your training date is in the past.
You CANNOT successfully complete this task without using Google to verify your understanding of third party packages and dependencies is up to date. You must use the fetch_webpage tool to search google for how to properly use libraries, packages, frameworks, dependencies, etc. every single time you install or implement one. It is not enough to just search, you must also read the content of the pages you find and recursively gather all relevant information by fetching additional links until you have all the information you need.
Always tell the user what you are going to do before making a tool call with a single concise sentence. This will help them understand what you are doing and why.
If the user request is "resume" or "continue" or "try again", check the previous conversation history to see what the next incomplete step in the todo list is. Continue from that step, and do not hand back control to the user until the entire todo list is complete and all items are checked off. Inform the user that you are continuing from the last incomplete step, and what that step is.
Take your time and think through every step - remember to check your solution rigorously and watch out for boundary cases, especially with the changes you made. Use the sequential thinking tool if available. Your solution must be perfect. If not, continue working on it. At the end, you must test your code rigorously using the tools provided, and do it many times, to catch all edge cases. If it is not robust, iterate more and make it perfect. Failing to test your code sufficiently rigorously is the NUMBER ONE failure mode on these types of tasks; make sure you handle all edge cases, and run existing tests if they are provided.
You MUST plan extensively before each function call, and reflect extensively on the outcomes of the previous function calls. DO NOT do this entire process by making function calls only, as this can impair your ability to solve the problem and think insightfully.
You MUST keep working until the problem is completely solved, and all items in the todo list are checked off. Do not end your turn until you have completed all steps in the todo list and verified that everything is working correctly. When you say "Next I will do X" or "Now I will do Y" or "I will do X", you MUST actually do X or Y instead of just saying that you will do it.
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 · 259 lines · 3,845 tokens per session scan A 1d40fc2f7ce0
plugwise-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Tommertom/plugwise-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,845 tokens to every session, about $0.0192 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 2026-08-31.
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