Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to zhinjs/zhin. 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/zhinjs/zhin/main/.github/copilot-instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhinjs/zhinWrote 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/zhinjs/zhin/copilot-instructions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/zhinjs/zhin/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/zhinjs/zhin/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/zhinjs/zhin/copilot-instructions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/zhinjs/zhin/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 | $0.01474 | $0.01474 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00590 | $0.00590 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00295 | $0.00295 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00147 | $0.00147 |
Grade A, and why
zhin copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 18d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Zhin.js Copilot Instructions
优先阅读根目录 AGENTS.md。它是仓库级入口。
Plugin Runtime 为准。 新插件只用
definePlugin+ 约定目录（defineCommand等）。
禁止教 / 写usePlugin()、MessageCommand、bootstrapNode/zhin.js/node。
插件创作面：.github/instructions/zhin-plugin.instructions.md
标准流程：skillzhin-plugin-standard-development
迁移旧代码：skillmigrate-zhin-plugin-runtime
常驻约束
- pnpm workspace monorepo，不用 git submodule。
- TypeScript 本地相对导入必须带
.js扩展名。 - 新插件：
plugin.tsdefault-exportdefinePlugin()；能力按目录发现。 - IM 出站：
Message.$reply/Adapter.sendMessage→renderSendMessage→before.sendMessage→ Endpoint；禁止旁路。 - 分层：
basic → kernel → ai → core → agent → zhin（basic/cli可为 composition root）。 - 改架构前读
docs/concepts/architecture.md、docs/contributing/repo-structure.md。
最小创作面示例
// plugin.ts
import { definePlugin } from 'zhin.js';
export default definePlugin({
name: 'my-plugin',
metadata: { displayName: 'My Plugin' },
setup(context) {
context.lifecycle.add(() => { /* cleanup */ });
},
});
// commands/hello/[name]/index.ts — 路径即路由，类型在 params 中声明
import { defineCommand } from 'zhin.js/command';
export default defineCommand({
description: '打招呼',
params: {
name: { type: 'string', description: '名字' },
},
execute({ params }) {
return `你好，${params.name}！`;
},
});
单文件 demo：examples/single-file-bot/bot.ts（setup({ addCommand })）。
约定目录
| 目录 | API |
|---|---|
commands/**/*/index.ts |
defineCommand() |
middlewares/*/index.ts |
defineMiddleware() |
handlers/<name>/index.ts |
defineHandler() |
components/*/index.tsx |
defineComponent() |
tools/<name>/index.ts |
defineAgentTool() |
hooks/<name>/index.ts |
defineHook() |
mcps/<name>/index.ts |
defineMcp() |
schedules/<name>/index.ts |
defineSchedule() |
agents/<agent>/tools/<name>/index.ts |
Agent-private defineAgentTool() |
skills/<skill>/tools/<name>/index.ts |
Skill-private defineAgentTool() |
agents/<agent>/skills/<skill>/tools/<name>/index.ts |
Agent-Skill-private defineAgentTool() |
pages/*/index.tsx |
definePage() |
skills/<name>/SKILL.md |
Skill |
agents/<name>/agent.json |
Agent 元数据；同目录包含 system.md、boundaries.md、conventions.md |
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.
- 18d ago Changed · +66 tokens per session 088232b75920
- 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines · +252 tokens per session 48972e0fbf8b
- 2mo ago First seen · 113 lines · 1,156 tokens per session scan A 08ec8cfdd5df
zhin copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zhinjs/zhin (136 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,474 tokens to every session, about $0.0059 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 2026-08-30.
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