What is MCP-Server copilot-instructions.md?

A web-based hub for managing and connecting multiple MCP servers, which are services that give AI assistants access to tools and data.

Use it when developing or running a TypeScript and React application that needs grouped MCP endpoints, configuration management, and a web interface.

It provides one place to configure, organize, and access those connected services instead of handling each server separately.

How zxerai/MCP-Server configures GitHub Copilot

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zxerai/MCP-Server. 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/zxerai/MCP-Server/main/.github/copilot-instructions.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zxerai/MCP-Server

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 402 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 402 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00402	$0.00402
Opus 5.5	$0.00161	$0.00161
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00080	$0.00080
Haiku 4.5	$0.00040	$0.00040

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 355799ca3386, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

MCP-Server 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 2mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

xiaozhi-mcphub copilot-instructions.md — 100% identical, 0 lines differ

.github/copilot-instructions.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

MCPHub Coding Instructions

Project Overview

MCPHub is a TypeScript/Node.js MCP server management hub that provides unified access through HTTP endpoints.

Core Components:

Backend: Express.js + TypeScript + ESM (src/server.ts)
Frontend: React/Vite + Tailwind CSS (frontend/)
MCP Integration: Connects multiple MCP servers (src/services/mcpService.ts)

Development Environment

pnpm install
pnpm dev           # Start both backend and frontend
pnpm backend:dev   # Backend only
pnpm frontend:dev  # Frontend only

Project Conventions

File Structure

src/services/ - Core business logic
src/controllers/ - HTTP request handlers
src/types/index.ts - TypeScript type definitions
src/config/index.ts - Configuration management

Key Notes

Use ESM modules: Import with .js extensions, not .ts
Configuration file: mcp_settings.json
Endpoint formats: /mcp/{group|server} and /mcp/$smart
All code comments must be written in English
Frontend uses i18n with resource files in locales/ folder
Server-side code should use appropriate abstraction layers for extensibility and replaceability

Development Process

For complex features, implement step by step and wait for confirmation before proceeding to the next step
After implementing features, no separate summary documentation is needed - update README.md and README.zh.md as appropriate

Development Entry Points

MCP Servers: Modify src/services/mcpService.ts
API Endpoints: Add routes in src/routes/, controllers in src/controllers/
Frontend Features: Start from frontend/src/pages/
Testing: Follow existing patterns in tests/

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.

2mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 402 tokens per session scan A 355799ca3386

Subscribe to this mod's changes

MCP-Server copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zxerai/MCP-Server (4 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 402 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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.

Building agents

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MCP-Server: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot