Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to ysfAskri/archguardian. 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/ysfAskri/archguardian/master/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ysfAskri/archguardianWrote 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/ysfaskri/archguardian/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ysfaskri/archguardian/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ysfaskri/archguardian/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/ysfaskri/archguardian/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ysfaskri/archguardian/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 | $0.00752 | $0.00752 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00301 | $0.00301 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00150 | $0.00150 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00075 | $0.00075 |
Grade A, and why
archguardian 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 — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
archguardian
Pre-commit hook and CLI that catches security issues, AI-generated code smells, naming convention violations, code duplication, and architecture layer breaches. Works with TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust, and Java.
Project structure
src/
├── cli/ Commander.js entry, 8 commands, output formatters (terminal, JSON, SARIF)
├── core/ Pipeline orchestrator, config loader, diff parser, suppression directives, baseline mode, types
├── parsers/ ast-grep NAPI parser (TS/JS/Python/Go/Rust/Java) + AST utilities
├── analyzers/ Security, AI smells, conventions, duplicates, layer violations
├── plugins/ Dynamic plugin loader for external analyzers
├── llm/ LLM client (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), prompt builder, file-based cache
├── fixers/ Auto-fix engine (remove unused imports, rename conventions)
├── metrics/ Run history tracker (.archguard/metrics.json)
├── hooks/ Git hook installer (direct + Husky)
└── utils/ Git operations, logging, perf timing
Build & test
npm run build— tsup → dist/npm test— vitest (165 tests across unit, integration, e2e)npm run typecheck— tsc --noEmit
Key conventions
- ESM-only (
"type": "module"), all imports use.jsextensions - Node >= 18 required
- AST parsing via ast-grep NAPI (native tree-sitter bindings, not WASM)
- Tests in
tests/unit/,tests/integration/,tests/e2e/using vitest - Config file:
.archguard.ymlvalidated with Zod schemas - Pipeline: analyzers run in parallel → deduplicate → suppress inline → filter baseline → optional LLM enhance
CLI commands
archguardian init Create config + install git hook
archguardian check [--format] [--update-baseline] Analyze staged changes
archguardian scan [--format] [--update-baseline] Analyze full project
archguardian fix [--dry-run] Auto-fix simple findings
archguardian learn [--apply] Infer conventions from codebase
archguardian rules [--json] List all built-in rules
archguardian metrics [--json] Show findings trend
archguardian dashboard [--port] Open web dashboard
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 · 71 lines · 752 tokens per session scan A 0d52015ad258
archguardian copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ysfAskri/archguardian (4 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 752 tokens to every session, about $0.0030 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 2026-08-31.
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