copilot-setup-audit

copilot-setup-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from trsdn/github-copilot-cli. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,952 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reviewing a repository's GitHub Copilot CLI setup. It checks custom instructions, agents, skills, hooks, plugins, and MCP connections, where MCP is a standard way for an agent to use external tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Copilot instructions, validate path-specific rules, inspect custom agents and integrations, find conflicts, and prepare a new repository's agent configuration.
Why use it?
Configuration gaps or conflicting instructions can make a coding agent behave inconsistently. An audit shows what is present, what is missing, and what should be improved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to review Copilot instructions, validate path-specific rules, inspect custom agents and integrations, find conflicts, and prepare a new repository's agent configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/trsdn/github-copilot-cli/copilot-setup-audit
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add trsdn/github-copilot-cli --skill copilot-setup-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trsdn/github-copilot-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,952 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.
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 $0.00057 $0.01952
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00781
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00195

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 94e7f1d778df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copilot-setup-audit 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 1mo 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/copilot-setup-audit/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copilot CLI Setup Audit

This skill audits a repository's GitHub Copilot CLI customization setup and provides actionable recommendations.

When to use this skill

  • User asks to audit or review their Copilot setup
  • User wants to optimize their CLI customization
  • User asks "what's missing from my Copilot config?"
  • Setting up a new project and want best-practice guidance

Audit Checklist

1. Custom Instructions

Check for existence and content of:

File Location Purpose
copilot-instructions.md .github/ Repository-wide instructions
*.instructions.md .github/instructions/ Path-specific instructions
AGENTS.md Root directory Agent instructions
CLAUDE.md Root directory Cross-tool compatibility
GEMINI.md Root directory Cross-tool compatibility

Validate:

  • YAML frontmatter is valid
  • applyTo globs match intended files (for scoped instructions)
  • Instructions are specific and actionable, not vague
  • No conflicting instructions between files

2. Custom Agents

Check for agents in:

Location Type
.github/agents/*.agent.md Repository-level
.claude/agents/*.agent.md Alternative project-level
~/.copilot/agents/*.agent.md User-level

Validate:

  • description is present (required)
  • name is present (recommended)
  • tools list is explicit and minimal (security best practice)
  • target, if present, is either github-copilot or vscode
  • disable-model-invocation and user-invocable are intentional when present
  • mcp-servers, if present, uses the MCP configuration schema
  • Prompt text is under 30,000 characters

3. Agent Skills

Check for skills in:

Location Type
.github/skills/*/SKILL.md Project skills
.agents/skills/*/SKILL.md Alternative project skills
.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md Alternative project skills
~/.copilot/skills/*/SKILL.md Personal skills
~/.agents/skills/*/SKILL.md Shared personal skills

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 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. 1mo ago First seen · 248 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 94e7f1d778df

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copilot-setup-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository trsdn/github-copilot-cli (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,952 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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