interactive-mcp: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

interactive-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from ttommyth/interactive-mcp. It costs 121 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for an interactive MCP server, a software service that lets AI assistants use tools. It describes how the assistant should communicate with users and how to maintain notes about the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide clarification and confirmation requests, require reading the project’s notes documentation, and update the notes when new information is learned or the user asks for a self-review.
Why use it?
It sets expectations for asking questions when requirements are unclear and for recording knowledge learned during work. This makes future interactions more consistent and keeps project notes up to date.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ttommyth/interactive-mcp. 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/ttommyth/interactive-mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ttommyth/interactive-mcp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 121 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 121 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 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 5.1 $0.00121 $0.00121
Opus 5.5 $0.00048 $0.00048
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00012

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 14f0b99fe9b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interactive-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 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Interaction with User

  • When you want to ask a question in the middle of your thinking, you could use the MCP tool request_user_input
  • Always ask for clarification if you feel uncertain in your response
  • Always ask for confirmation if you feel uncertain in your response
  • Feel free to ask for more information if you need it

AI Notes - Cursor Documentation System

  • Always read .notes/README.md
  • Update the files in .notes folder when you learn something
  • when user input "!rmb", do a self reflection and store the key knowledge in .notes folder
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 · 13 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 14f0b99fe9b2

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interactive-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ttommyth/interactive-mcp (351 stars, last pushed 11mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 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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