ebay-mcp: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

ebay-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from YosefHayim/ebay-mcp. It costs 451 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for GitHub Copilot in a TypeScript/Node.js server that connects to eBay APIs. They describe coding conventions, validation schemas, API patterns, and testing expectations.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide work on eBay API tools, TypeScript modules, input validation, error handling, tests, and documentation.
Why use it?
They give Copilot project-specific rules so generated or changed code fits the repository and avoids common mistakes, such as editing generated files or using the wrong module style.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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

This is YosefHayim/ebay-mcp's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on ebay-mcp 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 ebay-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to YosefHayim/ebay-mcp. 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/YosefHayim/ebay-mcp/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YosefHayim/ebay-mcp

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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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
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Opus 5 $0.00226 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00090 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00045 $0.00045

Measured 7d ago against content hash c2727899a352, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ebay-mcp 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 7d 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Copilot Instructions

Shared repo guidance lives in AGENTS.md, and full style rules live in CODE-STYLE.md. Use this file only for Copilot-specific reminders.

Core expectations

  • This is a TypeScript/Node.js ESM MCP server for eBay APIs. Keep NodeNext .js extensions in imports.
  • Use @/ aliases for imports outside the current folder; use ./sibling.js only for same-directory imports.
  • Hand-written source, test, and UI file basenames are camelCase. Generated specs/types and external docs keep upstream names.
  • New or migrated exports use named export const ... = (...) => functions. Do not add default exports.
  • Do not hand-edit files under src/types/; they are generated from eBay OpenAPI specs.

Schema and API patterns

  • Tool input schemas are Effect-backed. Import runtime helpers from @/utils/effectSchema.js and inference/helper types from @/utils/effectSchemaTypes.js.
  • Do not import zod directly outside the schema adapter boundary, and do not add compatibility re-export facades.
  • Fallible API work returns Effect.Effect<Success, TaggedError, Requirements>. Run Effects at MCP, HTTP, CLI, or test boundaries.
  • Do not add endpoint/tool try/catch when the work can be represented with Effect.
  • Endpoint-backed handlers should validate args, run one endpoint Effect, and return the generated eBay DTO without response reshaping.

Documentation and tests

  • Endpoint-backed API methods need TSDoc with @param, @returns, a small @example, and the official eBay @see URL.
  • Exported shared utilities document params and returns. Public aliases based on generated response types include @see.
  • Prefer focused tests near the changed behavior, then run the relevant validation command before claiming the change is done.

Validation

Use the same gates as AGENTS.md:

npm run typecheck
npm run check:ci
npm test
npm run test:integration
npm run build
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. 7d ago First seen · 38 lines · 451 tokens per session scan A c2727899a352

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ebay-mcp copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository YosefHayim/ebay-mcp (145 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 451 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.

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