agentic-workflow
Copilot instructions0 starsChanged 6 months agoMITView on GitHub
This repository is Specorator — a template for spec-driven, agentic software development. The workflow itself is the deliverable. AGENTS.md is the single source of truth for workflow rules, agent roles, operating conventions, and repo layout. Read it before making changes. Supporting context (in load order): This file is a Copilot-specific thin pointer. It does not replace AGENTS.md. When AGENTS.md Tool-specific notes changes, sync this file accordingly. See docs/adapters.md.
Where files are headingNew Copilot instructions files have more rules about branches and pull requests, and fewer about code style.
Of the Copilot instructions files we read, the 2,343 first seen in the last six months, against the older ones: the kind of rule that gained most share, and the kind that lost most. About files like this in general, not this one, and an estimate, since a kind is a pattern in the words.
In this repository45 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- plugin-v2/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- plugin-v2/CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- .cursor/rules/agents.mdcCursor rule
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The file
We split this copilot-instructions.md into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 19
All implementation derives from specs.
- Very specific: line 20
Use imperative commit messages referencing task IDs: feat(area): add T-AREA-NNN description.
- Very specific: line 22
Do not commit directly to main or develop.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 3,779 Copilot instructions files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
GitHub Copilot instructions
This repository is Specorator — a template for spec-driven, agentic software development. The workflow itself is the deliverable.
Source of truth
AGENTS.md is the single source of truth for workflow rules, agent roles, operating conventions, and repo layout. Read it before making changes.
Supporting context (in load order):
AGENTS.md— project conventions, agent classes, operating rulesmemory/constitution.md— governing principles.claude/memory/MEMORY.md— operational memory indexdocs/specorator.md— full lifecycle workflow definitionspecs/<feature>/workflow-state.md— active feature state
How to work here
- All implementation derives from specs. Read the relevant
specs/<slug>/before writing code. - Use imperative commit messages referencing task IDs:
feat(area): add T-AREA-NNN description. - One concern per branch. Verify locally before pushing:
npm run verify. - Do not commit directly to
mainordevelop.
Adapter note
This file is a Copilot-specific thin pointer. It does not replace AGENTS.md. When AGENTS.md Tool-specific notes changes, sync this file accordingly. See docs/adapters.md.
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