copilot-integration

A setup guide connecting GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant, with specsmith governance. It creates instructions that Copilot reads for workspace interactions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure Copilot instructions, run audits and checkpoints, require approval before changes, and save or end governed Copilot sessions.
Why use it?
It makes preflight approval, session checks, and governance rules part of Copilot’s project context, helping prevent unapproved code changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/layer1labs/specsmith/copilot-integration
Any agent
npx skills add layer1labs/specsmith --skill copilot-integration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/layer1labs/specsmith

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 284 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00284
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00142
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00028

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5971de8de3fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copilot-integration 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/copilot-integration/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Copilot — specsmith Governance Integration

One-time setup

specsmith integrate copilot   # generates .github/copilot-instructions.md

Copilot reads .github/copilot-instructions.md automatically for all workspace interactions. The generated file embeds the preflight gate, session protocol, and hard rules.

Every Copilot session — mandatory protocol

  1. Run at session start:
specsmith kill-session  # idempotent; safe when no processes exist
specsmith audit --project-dir .
specsmith sync  --project-dir .
specsmith checkpoint --project-dir .
  1. Output checkpoint block verbatim.
  2. Before every code change: specsmith preflight "<intent>" --json
    • Only proceed if decision == "accepted"
  3. Every 8–10 turns: specsmith checkpoint (output verbatim)
  4. Session end: specsmith save && specsmith kill-session

Key files

  • .github/copilot-instructions.md — Copilot workspace instructions
  • AGENTS.md — universal governance hub
  • .agents/skills/specsmith/SKILL.md — master CLI reference

Note

Copilot does not natively support MCP as of 2026. Governance is enforced through .github/copilot-instructions.md and AGENTS.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. 2d ago First seen · 34 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5971de8de3fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

copilot-integration is a skill published in the GitHub repository layer1labs/specsmith (7 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 284 tokens. 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.

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