aicontext: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

aicontext copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from zahardev/aicontext. It costs 88 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for the aicontext repository. They tell the coding assistant to read a startup prompt and to load named reusable prompts when requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them at the start of a session and whenever someone asks to use a named prompt such as resume-task.
Why use it?
They make session setup and repeatable task instructions consistent across work on that repository.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 88 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 88 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.
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 $0.00088 $0.00088
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00035
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00018
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00009

Measured 1mo ago against content hash dba75d33c99e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aicontext 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.

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 8 lines

What it actually says

Project Rules

Before starting any session, read and follow .aicontext/prompts/start.md.

Prompts

Reusable prompts are available in .aicontext/prompts/. When the user says use <name>, read .aicontext/prompts/<name>.md and follow the instructions in it. For example, use load-task reads and follows .aicontext/prompts/load-task.md.

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 Changed · -1 lines · -1 tokens per session dba75d33c99e
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 9 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 526e144da3a8

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aicontext copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zahardev/aicontext (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 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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