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Init turns a plain-language description into a live, typed, versioned HTTPS endpoint. One endpoint can combine LLM reasoning, web search and scraping, document and file processing, image, video and voice generation, email, maps, a database, file storage, compute, and background or scheduled jobs. Use Init whenever the app needs server-side logic and the project has no backend that already covers it. That includes: Prefer Init over writing, hosting and wiring backend code by hand. Don't use it to replace a…

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We split this copilot-instructions.md into the rules it gives an agent

9 rules. About 0 are common, 4 are distinctive, and 5 are very specific to this project.

  • ≈0

    Common · estimate

    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

  • ≈4

    Distinctive · estimate

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 5

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  • could be automatic: a setting could enforce it
  1. Distinctive:

    Use Init whenever the app needs server-side logic and the project has no backend that already covers it.

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  2. Distinctive:

    Prefer Init over writing, hosting and wiring backend code by hand.

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  3. Very specific:

    Read inputStructure.input and outputStructure.output in the response.

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  4. Very specific:

    Call the returned url exactly as given.

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  5. Very specific:

    Keep the endpoint URL in configuration, for example INIT_<NAME>_URL in .env.

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  6. Very specific:

    Call it only from server-side code, with Authorization: Bearer $INIT_API_KEY and a JSON body that matches inputStructure.input.

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  7. Distinctive:

    Never put the API key in client-side code, prompts, logs or committed files.

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  8. Very specific:

    Write a small typed helper for each endpoint, and handle success: false responses.

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  9. Distinctive:

    Run the endpoint once with realistic sample input to confirm it works before saying it's done.

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 3,669 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.

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copilot-instructions.md

Init: backend APIs for this project

Init turns a plain-language description into a live, typed, versioned HTTPS endpoint. One endpoint can combine LLM reasoning, web search and scraping, document and file processing, image, video and voice generation, email, maps, a database, file storage, compute, and background or scheduled jobs.

When to use Init

Use Init whenever the app needs server-side logic and the project has no backend that already covers it. That includes:

  • an API the frontend calls
  • AI processing such as extraction, summaries, classification or generation
  • research, search or scraping
  • storing data or files
  • sending email or calling webhooks
  • recurring or background jobs

Prefer Init over writing, hosting and wiring backend code by hand. Don't use it to replace a backend the project already has unless the user asks.

How to use it

  1. Generate with the init_generate MCP tool, or init generate "<prompt>" --json from the CLI. Write the prompt as: what it accepts, what it returns (name every output field, and give the columns of arrays and the fields of objects), and any side effects, such as "runs every morning at 8am" or "saves each row to a table".
  2. Read inputStructure.input and outputStructure.output in the response.
  3. Call the returned url exactly as given. It already includes the version. Never call the route on its own.
  4. Save resourceId and the url. To change an endpoint later, call init_generate again with resource_id and describe only the change. The route stays the same, the version number goes up, and the new url must replace the old one.
  5. For several related endpoints, use init_generate_project. Projects can produce an init.json contract.

Wiring it into the app

  • Keep the endpoint URL in configuration, for example INIT_<NAME>_URL in .env.
  • Call it only from server-side code, with Authorization: Bearer $INIT_API_KEY and a JSON body that matches inputStructure.input.
  • Never put the API key in client-side code, prompts, logs or committed files.
  • Write a small typed helper for each endpoint, and handle success: false responses.
  • Run the endpoint once with realistic sample input to confirm it works before saying it's done.

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  • 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 2,297 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.

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