feat: add agent-safety instructions and governance reviewer agent#757
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- instructions/agent-safety.instructions.md: Guidelines for building safe, governed AI agent systems (tool access controls, content safety, multi-agent safety, audit patterns, framework-specific notes) - agents/agent-governance-reviewer.agent.md: Expert agent that reviews code for governance gaps and helps implement policy enforcement Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Pull request overview
Adds new governance-focused guidance assets (one instruction set + one review agent) to help Copilot users build safer, more auditable AI agent systems, and indexes them in the docs.
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Agent Safety & Governancecustom instructions for safe tool-calling and multi-agent patterns. - Added
Agent Governance Reviewercustom agent to review codebases for governance gaps. - Updated instruction/agent documentation indexes to include the new resources.
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Copilot reviewed 4 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.
| File | Description |
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| instructions/agent-safety.instructions.md | New safety/governance instruction set for agent/tool-calling implementations. |
| agents/agent-governance-reviewer.agent.md | New agent definition focused on governance and auditability reviews. |
| docs/README.instructions.md | Adds the new instruction to the published instructions index. |
| docs/README.agents.md | Adds the new agent to the published agents index. |
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
Adds two complementary governance contributions:
1.
instructions/agent-safety.instructions.mdCustom instructions that guide Copilot toward safe AI agent development patterns:
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agents/agent-governance-reviewer.agent.mdA specialized Copilot agent that reviews code for governance gaps:
Context
These pair with the
agent-governanceskill (PR #755) andgovernance-audithook (PR #756) to provide a complete governance toolkit for Copilot users building AI agent systems.