copilot-setting jsp.instructions.md

A set of rules for JavaServer Pages (JSP), a technology that generates web pages on the server. It covers safe display of user data, JSP Standard Tag Library usage, and preparing data before rendering a page.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing JSP pages, especially dynamic HTML, links, JavaScript data, conditional sections, lists, and date or number formatting.
Why use it?
It helps prevent cross-site scripting, a security problem where harmful code is inserted into a web page. It also avoids outdated scriptlets and database-loading errors in views.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/zexion7873/copilot-setting/jsp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zexion7873/copilot-setting

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 556 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 556 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00556 $0.00556
Opus 5 $0.00278 $0.00278
Sonnet 5 $0.00111 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00056 $0.00056

Measured 2d ago against content hash 63fe08970ae9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copilot-setting jsp.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 2d 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/instructions/jsp.instructions.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

JSP Conventions

Output Encoding

  • Every dynamic value: <c:out value="${...}"/> or fn:escapeXml() — no raw ${...} in HTML
  • Attribute context requires a double-quoted attribute — escaping cannot stop unquoted-attribute breakout
  • Never put ${...} in an inline event handler (onclick) or javascript: URL — escaping cannot make these safe; pass via an HTML-escaped data-* attribute and read it from JS
  • JS context: JSON-encode server-side with < escaped as \u003c, or pass via a data-* attribute
  • URL context: <c:url> with <c:param>

JSTL Only

  • No scriptlets (<% ... %>); no <%= ... %> — use <c:out>
  • Logic: <c:if>, <c:choose>, <c:forEach>; formatting: <fmt:formatDate>, <fmt:formatNumber>

Includes

  • <jsp:include> for dynamic; <%@ include %> for static; never include user-supplied paths

Data Preparation

  • JSP must NOT trigger lazy loading — prepare all data in the controller/service before forwarding (instructions/spring-hibernate.instructions.md); a lazy-collection hit in a JSP means the service missed an eager fetch — fix the service, not the JSP

Anti-Patterns

Pattern Problem Fix
${user.name} unencoded XSS <c:out value="${user.name}"/>
title=${x} (unquoted attribute) Breakout via space / = despite escaping title="<c:out value='${x}'/>"
onclick="do('${x}')" EL in event handler — escaping doesn't neutralize data-* attribute, read from JS
<%= request.getParameter("q") %> Scriptlet + unencoded = XSS <c:out value="${param.q}"/>
<% if (cond) { %> Java in the view <c:if test="${cond}">
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. 2d ago First seen · 38 lines · 556 tokens per session scan A 63fe08970ae9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

copilot-setting jsp.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zexion7873/copilot-setting (1 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 556 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 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 2026-08-31.