SharingIsCaring: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Copilot Studio Agents as Code/.github/instructions/copilot-studio-agent.instructions.md

SharingIsCaring copilot-studio-agent.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from troystaylor/SharingIsCaring. It costs 718 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of strict editing rules for Microsoft Copilot Studio agent definition files with the .mcs.yaml or .mcs.yml extension. Copilot Studio is Microsoft's tool for creating and managing conversational agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing cloned Copilot Studio agent definitions in a code editor.
Why use it?
It helps prevent invalid or inconsistent changes to agent files managed by the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is troystaylor/SharingIsCaring's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on SharingIsCaring 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 SharingIsCaring configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to troystaylor/SharingIsCaring. 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/troystaylor/SharingIsCaring/main/Copilot Studio Agents as Code/.github/instructions/copilot-studio-agent.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/troystaylor/SharingIsCaring

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 718 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 718 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 unknown 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 $0.00718 $0.00718
Opus 5.5 $0.00287 $0.00287
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00144 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00072 $0.00072

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 4c41f49b01a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

SharingIsCaring copilot-studio-agent.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 2mo 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.

Copilot Studio Agents as Code/.github/instructions/copilot-studio-agent.instructions.md · 34 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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 · 34 lines · 718 tokens per session scan A 4c41f49b01a6

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SharingIsCaring copilot-studio-agent.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository troystaylor/SharingIsCaring (41 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 718 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 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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