vanguard-frontier-agentic: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

vanguard-frontier-agentic copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic. It costs 359 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A repository instruction file for Vanguard Frontier Agentic, a collection of AI workflows focused on cloud, zero-trust, and compliance work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as guidance when changing the repository's skills, agents, rules, MCP references, catalog, schemas, or documentation.
Why use it?
It sets expectations for evidence, least privilege, safe automation, and keeping catalog data up to date. The provided details do not describe a standalone command or tool.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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

This is VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on vanguard-frontier-agentic 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 vanguard-frontier-agentic configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic. 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/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/master/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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When invoked 359 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.
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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.

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Sonnet 5 $0.00072 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00036 $0.00036

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Security

Grade A, and why

vanguard-frontier-agentic 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 10d 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.

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What it actually says

Vanguard Frontier Agentic repository instructions

This repository is a curated marketplace for cloud, zero-trust, and compliance-aware AI workflows.

What to optimize for

  • Evidence-backed guidance over confident guessing
  • Least privilege over convenience
  • Zero-trust design over implicit trust
  • Safe automation with approval, validation, and rollback paths
  • Clear separation between facts, assumptions, inference, and unknowns

Repo structure

  • skills/ = reusable workflows
  • agents/ = expert roles
  • rules/ = harness-specific instructions
  • mcp/ = MCP references and trust notes
  • catalog/ = machine-readable indexes
  • schemas/ = metadata contracts
  • docs/ = governance, taxonomy, quality, compatibility

Rules for changes

  • Keep changes tightly scoped to the request.
  • Do not add secrets, credentials, tokens, tenant IDs, wallets, or customer data.
  • Prefer official docs and live evidence for cloud/compliance claims.
  • Treat destructive actions, broad permissions, and MCP mutation paths as high risk.
  • Update catalog metadata when adding, moving, or removing cataloged assets.
  • If intentional changes are made under cataloged skills/**, refresh the skill manifest with npm run manifest:write.
  • Run npm run validate before finishing.

Cross-platform asset rule

This repo supports multiple harnesses without pretending they are identical.

  • Keep portable logic in canonical/shared assets.
  • Keep harness-specific behavior in the correct adapter format.
  • Do not invent unsupported executable metadata fields.

Read these when relevant

  • README.md
  • AGENTS.md
  • docs/compatibility.md
  • docs/normalized-platform-matrix.md
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. 10d ago First seen · 48 lines · 359 tokens per session scan A ba18b1f35b1e

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vanguard-frontier-agentic copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 359 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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.

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