context-instructions

context-instructions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from suuus/ape-context. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,325 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for creating or updating GitHub Copilot's instruction file with information about an organisation's tools, services, and working rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for documenting configured MCP servers, their tools, team conventions, relevant skills, and project constraints in `.github/copilot-instructions.md`.
Why use it?
It puts scattered team knowledge into one file so coding assistants know which tools to use and what conventions to follow.

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/suuus/ape-context/context-instructions
Any agent
npx skills add suuus/ape-context --skill context-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/suuus/ape-context

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,325 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 $0.00019 $0.01325
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00662
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00265
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00133

Measured 3d ago against content hash 06d6e9682c58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-instructions 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 3d 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/skills/context-instructions/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate or update .github/copilot-instructions.md with enterprise context based on everything configured so far.

Important: Include ALL configured MCP servers

List every MCP server from .mcp.json — both newly installed and pre-existing ones. For each, document:

  • What services it covers
  • Key tools and when to use them
  • Example: workiq covers M365 — "When user asks about emails, meetings, SharePoint docs, or Teams messages, use the workiq MCP server's ask_work_iq tool"

What to generate

Add an ## Enterprise Context section (or update it if it exists) with:

Per-tool blocks

For each configured MCP server/tool:

  • MCP server name
  • Key tools it provides (list the actual tool names agents should use)
  • When to use this tool vs. alternatives
  • Team conventions (project keys, space names, URLs)
  • Prefer MCP tools over CLI equivalents when available

Skills and agents

Reference any relevant skills or agents:

  • "Use the azure-deploy skill for deployments"
  • "The context-wizard agent can reconfigure this setup"

Team Intent & Constraints

Retrieve distilled intent from the session store:

SELECT value FROM session_state WHERE key = 'distilled_intent';

Fall back to conversation context if not available. If neither exists, skip this section and note: "No distilled intent available — run /context-distill to generate."

Include the distilled output from Phase 8 (Distill). This is the Intent layer of ISEE — codified so every agent inherits it.

Intent statements

Express what the team values as clear directives:

  • "This team prioritises reliability over feature velocity"
  • "Security reviews are required for all external-facing changes"
Constraints

Hard rules that agents must always respect:

  • "Production deployments require manual approval from a team lead"
  • "All PRs must reference a Jira ticket"
  • "Secrets must be stored in Azure Key Vault, never in environment variables"
Autonomy boundaries

Render the classified autonomy boundaries from Phase 8 as a structured table:

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 3d ago First seen · 128 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 06d6e9682c58

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context-instructions is a skill published in the GitHub repository suuus/ape-context (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,325 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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