kendex copilot-instructions.md

Instructions for reviewing changes in Kendex, a project that distributes agent tools, code, and a desktop application. They define which findings should block a change and which style issues should be ignored.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when reviewing Kendex pull requests, especially changes to gate, CI, or guard code, and when following the project’s path-specific review rules.
Why use it?
They help reviewers focus on correctness, security, data loss, and fail-open problems while avoiding low-value comments and repeated review cycles.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/vanillagreencom/kendex/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanillagreencom/kendex

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 459 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 459 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00459 $0.00459
Opus 5 $0.00230 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00092 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00046 $0.00046

Measured today against content hash 6ce8e481c2a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kendex 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 today.

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 · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

kendex

kendex is a distribution of agent-stack assets: skills (skills/, Bash scripts plus markdown), agent definitions (agents/), hooks (hooks/), Pi extensions (pi-extensions/, TypeScript with committed bundles), a Rust engine and CLI (crates/), and a Tauri + React app (crates/app, ui/). Consumers vendor the skills and extensions and re-vendor in deliberate batches. Path-scoped review rules live in .github/instructions/*.instructions.md; fleet review economics and accepted residual classes in review-bots.md — follow both.

Code review calibration

PRs here are authored and shepherded by AI agents and re-reviewed on every push. Rounds are the scarce resource. Calibrate:

What to raise

  • Blocking: correctness bugs, security holes, data loss, fail-open paths in gate/CI/guard code — in the changed lines or directly broken by them.
  • One comment per root cause. Name every affected site in that comment instead of one comment per site.
  • Surface everything you have about the current diff in one round; a finding held for the next round costs a full re-review cycle.

What not to raise

  • Style, wording, naming, and comment-phrasing preferences.
  • Speculative hardening on paths that already fail closed.
  • Test-coverage asks, unless the diff changes behavior that no test now exercises — then say which behavior, in one comment.
  • Scope observations ("this also touches X") when X is listed in the PR body as deliberate.
  • Anything outside the diff and its direct blast radius.
  • A finding class already answered on this PR with Declined: <reason> — do not re-raise it unless the relevant code changed since.

Reply contract (context for reading threads)

AGENTS.md § Code Review Rules is the contract. Read it there.

Severity honesty

Mark a finding blocking only if you would stop a human colleague's merge for it. Everything else is a suggestion — batch suggestions, and omit them entirely on re-review rounds whose diff is a one-line fix.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 lines

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. today Changed · -3 lines · -56 tokens per session 6ce8e481c2a6
  2. 2d ago First seen · 46 lines · 515 tokens per session scan A b3fb5a93d728

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kendex copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vanillagreencom/kendex (65 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 459 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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 2026-08-30.