copilot instructions for AI safety

[kelly-sovacool]

Concerns from @pajailwala

• Agentic mode allows creating, modifying, and deleting files, which increases risks of inadvertent loss of important files.
• What additional safeguards or checks can we put in place to ensure agentic execution does not run astray on the file system? Or does Codex already use the existing copilot-instructions document?
• What additional safeguards or checks can we put in place to ensure agentic execution does not run astray on the file system?

[kelly-sovacool]

Using copilot instructions with codex: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1re8ur8/advice_on_copilotinstructionsmd_switching_from/

[kelly-sovacool]

Ensure all models follow the same standards:

• copilot: .github/copilot-instructions.md
• codex: AGENTS.md
• claude: .claude/