copilot-setup-audit

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

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/trsdn/github-copilot-cli/copilot-setup-audit
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.

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. 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 $0.00057 $0.01952
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00976
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00195

Measured yesterday against content hash 94e7f1d778df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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. yesterday First seen · 248 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 94e7f1d778df

Subscribe to this mod's changes

copilot-setup-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository trsdn/github-copilot-cli (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,952 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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