docs: September 2026 Copilot coding standards - #126
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Path-specific .github/instructions files encode language rules Copilot loads on matching files; the code-review skill is the GitHub Copilot review entrypoint so PRs are checked against this repo's contract.
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Summary
.github/instructions/(TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Cedar, and/or Rego as this repo uses them)..github/skills/code-review/so Copilot code review loads this repository's contract (HITL, fail-closed, no invented gate PASS).AGENTS.md,.github/copilot-instructions.md, andllms.txtat those files. Repos that lacked a portable domain skill get one under.github/skills/.This is the remaining September 2026 Copilot/agent surface after the community-contract docs pass: instructions for almost every task, skills when the task is specialized.
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.github/instructions/*.instructions.mdfiles haveapplyTofrontmatter.github/skills/code-review/SKILL.mdnamematches the directory