copilot-config

copilot-config is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from event4u-app/agent-config. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,982 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for configuring GitHub Copilot, the coding assistant that suggests code and reviews pull requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports editing copilot-instructions.md, tuning suggestions and output verbosity, and analyzing Copilot pull-request review patterns.
Why use it?
It helps keep Copilot's project-specific instructions focused and reduces recurring review mistakes or unwanted suggestion behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit It supports editing copilot-instructions.md, tuning suggestions and output verbosity, and analyzing Copilot pull-request review patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/event4u-app/agent-config/copilot-config
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add event4u-app/agent-config --skill copilot-config
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/event4u-app/agent-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,982 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.01982
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00991
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00198

Measured 7d ago against content hash d1b9a899dd7d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copilot-config 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 7d 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.

src/skills/copilot-config/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot Skill

When to use

Use this skill when:

  • Editing .github/copilot-instructions.md to improve Copilot behavior
  • Dealing with Copilot PR review comments (via /fix-pr-comments)
  • Analyzing Copilot's review patterns to identify recurring false positives
  • Tuning Copilot's code suggestions for the project

Do NOT use when:

  • Augment-specific behavior (use Augment rules and skills)
  • Writing application code

Procedure: Configure Copilot

  1. Inspect current Copilot config — Read .github/copilot-instructions.md (if any) and the What Copilot Can and Cannot Read table below to confirm Copilot Code Review vs. Chat scope.
  2. Decide self-contained scope — Identify which rules must live in copilot-instructions.md (PR-review-relevant) vs. .augment/ (agent-only).
  3. Apply changes — Edit copilot-instructions.md with coding-standards, review-comment rules, and any new conventions; keep it self-contained.
  4. Verify — Open a draft PR, confirm Copilot reads the new rules; for Chat, ask Copilot to summarize the active instructions.

Configuration File

.github/copilot-instructions.md — the single source of truth for Copilot behavior.

What Copilot Can and Cannot Read

Context Copilot Code Review (PR bot) Copilot Chat (IDE)
.github/copilot-instructions.md ✅ Reads automatically ✅ Reads automatically
.augment/rules/ ❌ Cannot access ✅ Can read if referenced
.augment/skills/ ❌ Cannot access ✅ Can read if referenced
.augment/guidelines/ ❌ Cannot access ✅ Can read if referenced
AGENTS.md ❌ Cannot access ✅ Can read if referenced
agents/ ❌ Cannot access ✅ Can read if referenced

Key implication: copilot-instructions.md must be self-contained for PR reviews. It cannot reference .augment/ files and expect Copilot Code Review to follow them. For Copilot Chat users, a hint at the top of the file points to .augment/ for deeper context.

What Copilot Controls

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 213 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A d1b9a899dd7d

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copilot-config is a skill published in the GitHub repository event4u-app/agent-config (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,982 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.