BetterDesk: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

BetterDesk copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from UNITRONIX/BetterDesk. It costs 38,741 tokens per session, scanned B, original, no licence file.

Project instructions for BetterDesk’s web console, including commit rules, project status, script versions, and console-related work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Working on BetterDesk’s web consoles, creating commits in the required format, and using the documented script version.
Why use it?
They record the conventions and current project details the coding agent must follow when making changes.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to UNITRONIX/BetterDesk. 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/UNITRONIX/BetterDesk/dev/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UNITRONIX/BetterDesk

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 38,741 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 38,741 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.38741 $0.38741
Opus 5.5 $0.15496 $0.15496
Sonnet 5.5 $0.07748 $0.07748
Haiku 4.5 $0.03874 $0.03874

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 6073fd806f6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

BetterDesk copilot-instructions.md scanned grade B with 2 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo ./betterdesk.sh

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

81. [x] **`get_public_ip: command not found` (Issue #58)**: Diagnostics function called undefined `get_public_ip` function at line 3348. Created reusable `get_public_ip()` function in all 3 scripts (`betterdesk.sh`, `bet
.github/copilot-instructions.md · 1,210 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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 · 1,210 lines · 38,741 tokens per session scan B 6073fd806f6e

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BetterDesk copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository UNITRONIX/BetterDesk (463 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 38,741 tokens to every session, about $0.1550 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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