caro: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/safety.instructions.md

caro safety.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from wildcard/caro. It costs 1,135 tokens per session, scanned C, original, AGPL-3.0.

Review guidance for checking code against safety and security requirements, including dangerous patterns and required pattern validation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during safety-focused code reviews to check critical concerns and verify required matching rules.
Why use it?
It helps reveal risky code patterns before they can cause security or operational problems.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to wildcard/caro. 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/wildcard/caro/main/.github/instructions/safety.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wildcard/caro

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 1,135 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,135 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 4 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 $0.01135 $0.01135
Opus 5.5 $0.00454 $0.00454
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00227 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00113 $0.00113

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 993ac9cad664, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

caro safety.instructions.md scanned grade C with 4 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 1mo 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 rootlowPrivilege escalation

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

- `sudo su`, `sudo -i` - Shell escalation

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Downloads and executes remote codemediumSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- `curl | bash`, `wget | sh` - Remote code execution

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Recursive force deletemediumDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- `rm -rf /` - Recursive root deletion

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- `curl | bash`, `wget | sh` - Remote code execution
.github/instructions/safety.instructions.md · 160 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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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. 1mo ago First seen · 160 lines · 1,135 tokens per session scan C 993ac9cad664

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caro safety.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository wildcard/caro (40 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 1,135 tokens to every session, about $0.0045 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 4 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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