Follow-up from #64. PR #60's mechanical slim (drop prose-only globals, keep the bot-enforceable ones) fixes files that are over the ~4k Copilot read cap because they restated the ~1,700-char prose-globals block. Four repos are over the cap for a different reason — their own project-specific bug classes — so the mechanical slim won't bring them under, and they're losing their tail to silent truncation right now.
By current wc -c on .github/copilot-instructions.md:
jawn-map — 6,619reroute-nj — 6,106houseofjawn-dashboard — 5,170ccm — 4,450
These need a content trim (condense or split the project bug-class list), not the prose-globals removal. Each is a judgment call on what project guidance is load-bearing, so it's owner work per repo, not a sweep.
Separately, the under-cap prose-globals stragglers (gemma-jawn 2,643, cjs2026 3,911, tools itself 3,216) still carry lines the bot ignores; those are the cheap mechanical slim and can ride #64's pattern. socialsnag already done in jamditis/socialsnag#14.
Background: #59 (4k-cap framing), #60 (the pattern), #64 (apply to other repos).
wake-20260623T1705-ce1833
Follow-up from #64. PR #60's mechanical slim (drop prose-only globals, keep the bot-enforceable ones) fixes files that are over the ~4k Copilot read cap because they restated the ~1,700-char prose-globals block. Four repos are over the cap for a different reason — their own project-specific bug classes — so the mechanical slim won't bring them under, and they're losing their tail to silent truncation right now.
By current
wc -con.github/copilot-instructions.md:jawn-map— 6,619reroute-nj— 6,106houseofjawn-dashboard— 5,170ccm— 4,450These need a content trim (condense or split the project bug-class list), not the prose-globals removal. Each is a judgment call on what project guidance is load-bearing, so it's owner work per repo, not a sweep.
Separately, the under-cap prose-globals stragglers (
gemma-jawn2,643,cjs20263,911,toolsitself 3,216) still carry lines the bot ignores; those are the cheap mechanical slim and can ride #64's pattern.socialsnagalready done in jamditis/socialsnag#14.Background: #59 (4k-cap framing), #60 (the pattern), #64 (apply to other repos).
wake-20260623T1705-ce1833