continues is a command-line tool for moving an AI coding session from one coding agent to another while preserving conversation history, file changes, and working state. Developers use it when they need to continue work in a different tool, and the catalogue entries provide instructions for transferring sessions across supported agents.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to yigitkonur/cli-continues. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yigitkonur/cli-continues/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yigitkonur/cli-continuesWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/copilot-instructions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/copilot-instructions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00527 | $0.00527 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00211 | $0.00211 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00105 | $0.00105 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00053 | $0.00053 |
Grade A, and why
cli-continues 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 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
continues — Code Review Standards
Read-Only Semantics
- Session data is NEVER modified. Any PR that writes to
~/.claude/,~/.codex/,~/.copilot/,~/.gemini/,~/.factory/,~/.cursor/, or~/.local/share/opencode/is a critical bug. - Handoff files (
.continues-handoff.md) write only to the project's own working directory — never to tool storage paths.
ESM Conventions
- All local imports must use
.jsextensions, even for.tssource files:import { foo } from './bar.js' - Never use
require()— this is an ESM-only codebase ("type": "module"inpackage.json) - Use
process.exitCode = Ninstead ofprocess.exit(N)— allows cleanup handlers to run
Error Handling
- Use typed errors from
src/errors.ts(ParseError,SessionNotFoundError,ToolNotAvailableError) for user-facing error paths — not barethrow new Error() - Parsers must silently skip malformed session data with
catch {}— never propagate parse errors to the caller
Registry Completeness
- Every
SessionSourcemember insrc/types/tool-names.tsmust have a registeredToolAdapterinsrc/parsers/registry.ts - The completeness assertion at the bottom of
registry.tsthrows at module load if any adapter is missing — a missing entry crashes the CLI at startup - Adding a tool to
TOOL_NAMESwithout a registry entry is always a bug; changes toSessionSourcerequire coordinated updates in the registry, fixtures, and tests
Code Quality
- Biome handles all formatting and style — do not introduce ESLint, Prettier, or TSLint configs
- No synchronous file I/O (
readFileSync,writeFileSync) in parser code — blocks the event loop when scanning large session directories - Shared helpers
cleanSummary,extractRepoFromCwd, andhomeDirlive insrc/utils/parser-helpers.ts— do not duplicate them in individual parsers
Performance
- Parsers run in parallel via
Promise.allSettledin the session index builder — a slow parser delays only its own results - The session index uses a 5-minute TTL cache at
~/.continues/sessions.jsonl— cache bypasses should be explicitly justified
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 527 tokens per session scan A 43e35fb99dba
cli-continues copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yigitkonur/cli-continues (1,580 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 527 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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