copilot-guide

copilot-guide is a skill for Claude Code from xonovex/platform. It costs 87 tokens per session (544 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to configuring GitHub Copilot CLI and cloud-agent hooks, policies, plugins, and skills. These are extensions and rules that affect how Copilot runs or responds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure or review Copilot hooks and policies, check repository trust, plan onboarding, and verify or disable changes.
Why use it?
It helps account for differences between the command-line and cloud products, supported handlers, trust requirements, permissions, and rollback.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the xonovex-agentic plugin — 11 skills, 16 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to configure or review Copilot hooks and policies, check repository trust, plan onboarding, and verify or disable changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xonovex/platform/copilot-guide
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.

Any agent
npx skills add xonovex/platform --skill copilot-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xonovex/platform

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install xonovex-agentic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 16 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 544 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 $0.00087 $0.00544
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00218
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00054

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1f881889616f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copilot-guide 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.

packages/runtime/plugin/plugin-agentic/skills/copilot-guide/SKILL.md · 36 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 36 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Copilot Hooks and Policy

Configure GitHub Copilot's native hook and extension surface without inventing unsupported guarantees or a universal hook file.

Essentials

  • Separate CLI and cloud - Resolve the product surface before selecting an event or guarantee.
  • Use version-1 config - Pin configuration schema, docs snapshot, and observed copilot --version.
  • Preserve handler support - Commands cover hook types; HTTP and prompt handlers have narrower rules and surface limits.
  • Respect policy precedence - CLI policy hooks load first and cannot be disabled by lower scopes.
  • Review repository execution - Hooks, plugin extensions, and skill scripts require trust and security review.
  • Onboard reversibly - Preview scope, handler, cloud data flow, permissions, firewall, verification, disable, and rollback.

Gotchas

  • Current documentation is not command-only: HTTP handlers are documented, and prompt handlers are limited to sessionStart.
  • Cloud agent supports a subset of events, runs non-interactively, and does not use permissionRequest as a decision gate.
  • Cloud hook files are repository-scoped and execute in an ephemeral Linux sandbox with restricted network.
  • CLI policy hooks cannot be disabled with lower-scope disableAllHooks.
  • Pre-approving shell in a skill expands risk and requires review of the skill and its scripts.

Example

A policy requiring cloud-agent command blocking selects repository preToolUse, not permissionRequest; the preview includes version-1 JSON, bash-only cloud behavior, firewall/data flow, repository trust, output decision schema, job-timeout impact, and file-level disable rollback.

Progressive Disclosure

  • Read references/capabilities.md - Load when mapping semantic intents to native events, handlers, guarantees, versions, ordering, context, or limitations
  • Read references/onboarding.md - Load when discovering, previewing, applying, verifying, disabling, rolling back, updating, or detecting drift
  • Read references/patterns.md - Load when translating deterministic hooks, model evaluators, specialist agents, or managed adoption recipes

Read the full file on GitHub · 36 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 36 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 1f881889616f

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copilot-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository xonovex/platform (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 544 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-08.

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