ai-coding-rules copilot-instructions.md

ai-coding-rules copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from zoxknez/ai-coding-rules. It costs 206 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Canonical coding rules for AI agents, including a test-first workflow, response format, and conditions for stopping.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to structure coding responses, keep changes minimal, avoid secrets and personal data, and pause before security risks, data loss, breaking changes, or large unapproved edits.
Why use it?
They set shared expectations for safe, focused changes and make plans, patches, verification, and risks explicit.

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/zoxknez/ai-coding-rules/copilot-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zoxknez/ai-coding-rules

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 206 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 206 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 $0.00206 $0.00206
Opus 5 $0.00103 $0.00103
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00021

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1a14f29ecd6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-coding-rules 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 4d 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 · 32 lines

What it actually says

Canonical AI Coding Instructions (Premium)

This is the single source of truth. Sync/copy into tool-specific instruction files.

Core Contract

  • Correctness > simplicity > consistency > style.
  • Minimal diff. No drive‑by refactors.
  • Ask when ambiguous (assumptions ledger + max 3 questions).
  • Test‑first loop: failing test → green → refactor.
  • No secrets or PII in code/logs.

Output Format

  • PLAN (max 10 lines)
  • ASSUMPTIONS (critical marked 🔴)
  • QUESTIONS (max 3)
  • PATCH (diffs with paths)
  • VERIFICATION (commands + manual checks)
  • NOTES (tradeoffs/risks)

Stop Triggers

  • Security implication
  • Data loss
  • Breaking change
  • 3 files or >200 LOC without approval

References

  • MASTER_RULES.md
  • global_rules.md
  • security_privacy.md
  • project_profile.md
  • task_template.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. 4d ago First seen · 32 lines · 206 tokens per session scan A 1a14f29ecd6c

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ai-coding-rules copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zoxknez/ai-coding-rules (27 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 206 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-30.

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