ai-engineering-workspace: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

copilot/workspace-template/.github/instructions/frontend.instructions.md

Frontend Standards is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace. It costs 157 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Rules for building React interfaces with semantic HTML, accessible controls, predictable state, stable layouts, and clear loading, error, and empty states.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing frontend components, React hooks, forms, interactive controls, and responsive page layouts.
Why use it?
It helps avoid confusing interfaces, keyboard problems, shifting layouts, overlapping text, and unnecessarily complex components.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on ai-engineering-workspace 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 ai-engineering-workspace configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace. 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/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace/main/copilot/workspace-template/.github/instructions/frontend.instructions.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace

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When invoked 157 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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Opus 5.5 $0.00063 $0.00063
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00016

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b3a3e07e94b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Frontend Standards 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.

copilot/workspace-template/.github/instructions/frontend.instructions.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Frontend Standards

Follow existing design system and component conventions.

Prefer:

  • semantic HTML
  • accessible controls
  • predictable state flow
  • stable layout dimensions for fixed-format UI
  • clear loading, error, and empty states
  • small focused components

Avoid:

  • decorative complexity without product value
  • component abstractions before repetition is real
  • layout shifts from dynamic content
  • text overflow or overlap
  • hidden keyboard traps

For React, use hooks correctly and keep side effects explicit. Avoid duplicating derived state unless it is needed for interaction.

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 · 30 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A b3a3e07e94b8

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Frontend Standards is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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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