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kendex docs-architecture.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from vanillagreencom/kendex. It costs 217 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

A set of rules for writing principle documents in the Kendex codebase. Each document explains one cross-folder idea, why it matters, the rules to follow, and one representative code example.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing Kendex principle documents and checking whether their stated paths, symbols, settings, rules, or checks match the code.
Why use it?
It keeps architecture documentation aligned with the code it describes and limits review comments to claims that the current code proves false.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

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

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to vanillagreencom/kendex. 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/vanillagreencom/kendex/main/.github/instructions/docs-architecture.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanillagreencom/kendex

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Per session 217 This file is loaded in full into every session.
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Measured 21d ago against content hash 761b4f0a19da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

kendex docs-architecture.instructions.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 21d 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.

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Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

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.github/instructions/docs-architecture.instructions.md · 9 lines

What it actually says

A file here is a principle doc: one reader's task and the harmful mistake it prevents, with the approach, why, the rules and one canonical code example, whatever folders that task crosses. Raise a thread only where it contradicts the code it describes as that code stands at this head: a path, symbol, setting, rule or enforcing check the doc states that the code does not bear out. Do not raise wording, structure or length, and do not ask it to walk through code, list files or tests, or record history, dates or measurements; those do not belong here. Do not ask for a doc here to change beside a code change unless the change makes a claim in it false.

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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.

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  3. 23d ago First seen · 9 lines · 223 tokens per session scan C 41647e018b6c

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kendex docs-architecture.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vanillagreencom/kendex (87 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 217 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-06.

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