mcp-server-uiautomation: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/architecture-patterns.instructions.md

mcp-server-uiautomation architecture-patterns.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from trsdn/mcp-server-uiautomation. It costs 90 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Architecture guidance for a Windows UI Automation toolkit, which lets software control and inspect Windows interfaces. It defines how the toolkit's shared service, command-line tool, and MCP server should work together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or changing UI Automation queries, shared services, command-line commands, or MCP server behavior. It helps keep all access paths consistent.
Why use it?
It prevents the same behavior from being implemented differently in separate entry points and keeps Windows UI access safe on the required STA threads.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is trsdn/mcp-server-uiautomation's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on mcp-server-uiautomation 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 mcp-server-uiautomation configures →

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to trsdn/mcp-server-uiautomation. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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.github/instructions/architecture-patterns.instructions.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

UIAutomationMcp Architecture Patterns

  • Keep the active layers aligned: ComInterop -> Service -> CLI/MCP Server.
  • UI Automation access must remain safe on STA threads.
  • Shared behavior belongs in UIAutomationMcp.Service or UIAutomationMcp.ComInterop, not duplicated across entry points.
  • If a UIA query is added publicly, keep CLI and MCP behavior aligned.
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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. 1mo ago First seen · 12 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 8da435fb3434

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mcp-server-uiautomation architecture-patterns.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository trsdn/mcp-server-uiautomation (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.