nextgen: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/copilot-instructions.md

nextgen copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from zitadel/nextgen. It costs 550 tokens per session, scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

Project instructions for GitHub Copilot working in the pre-release zitadel/nextgen repository. They emphasize correctness and stable contracts over visual polish.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when asking Copilot to modify or review the zitadel/nextgen codebase, especially changes affecting behavior or public interfaces.
Why use it?
They help Copilot account for the project's unfinished status and avoid changes that make behavior or interfaces less reliable.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 550 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 550 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 unknown 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 $0.00550 $0.00550
Opus 5.5 $0.00220 $0.00220
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00110 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00055 $0.00055

Measured 10d ago against content hash 22a54575ae15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nextgen 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 10d 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 · 39 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 10d ago Changed · -10 lines · -222 tokens per session 22a54575ae15
  2. 15d ago Changed · -16 tokens per session f8804505b4c3
  3. 21d ago Changed · +9 lines · +173 tokens per session 1cfe38de4d5e
  4. 2mo ago First seen · 40 lines · 615 tokens per session scan A 1e514dde4540

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nextgen copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zitadel/nextgen (29 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 550 tokens to every session, about $0.0022 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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