Copilot Pace

Know your Copilot budget. Keep your pace in view.

Track GitHub Copilot credits from your VS Code status bar. See what you have used, what remains, and where your current daily pace could take you by renewal.

GitHub.com · Desktop VS Code 1.120+

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Your usage, at a glance

• Status bar: budget used and a color-coded pace indicator while you work.
• Hover summary: remaining credits, time left, daily allowance and projected usage.
• Detail panel: compare credits used with cycle progress and see the numbers behind the estimate.
• Flexible calendar: switch between Every day and Mon–Fri to match your working week.
• Account controls: see which GitHub account is being queried, switch accounts or reconnect when needed.
• Automatic refresh: check every 15 minutes by default, with a manual refresh whenever you need it.

Hover over the status item for a quick summary. Click it to open the detail panel beside your editor.

See your pace

The panel puts your remaining budget and daily allowance next to your average consumption. Usage and cycle progress have separate bars, so you can compare how quickly you are spending credits with how much of the cycle has elapsed.

Comfortable · dark theme	Over pace · light theme

Actual extension screenshots with simulated data, captured in the development host. Click either image to inspect it at full size. Demo tools are available only during development; distributed packages use GitHub data.

What the colors mean

The status bar color follows projected usage at renewal, rather than the percentage already used. In the examples above, 40% used projects to about 85% of the budget; 60% used projects to about 128%.

These are estimates based on your average so far. They change as your usage changes.

Get started

1. In VS Code, open Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X) and search for Copilot Pace by Ruben Blanco Manzano. Select Install.
2. Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and run Copilot Pace: Connect GitHub. Authorize access through VS Code and select the account with Copilot.
3. Find Copilot Pace on the right side of the status bar. Hover for a summary or click for details.

Version history and tested release packages are available in GitHub Releases.

Choose the right account

Copilot Pace uses VS Code's GitHub authentication. Its authorization and account selection are separate from Copilot's own connection.

The hover and detail panel identify the account being queried. Use Switch GitHub account… to select another account through VS Code, or Reconnect GitHub to renew authorization. Copilot Pace shows one account at a time; switching it does not change the account used by Copilot itself.

Commands

Open the Command Palette and type Copilot Pace:

The panel also offers Refresh usage and the appropriate account action. Every day / Mon–Fri changes the calendar used for the estimate.

How the estimate works

All amounts represent credits. The budget and used percentage come from GitHub's Copilot quota snapshot; Copilot Pace does not guess your budget from a plan name.

Calculations use UTC, include partial days and require a known budget and a recognized monthly cycle. Mon–Fri excludes Saturdays and Sundays, without a public holiday calendar. Before one eligible day has elapsed, the extension shows Calculating pace.

Settings

Search for Copilot Pace in VS Code Settings, or edit these application-level settings:

{
  "copilotPace.dayMode": "weekdays",
  "copilotPace.pollIntervalMinutes": 15
}

Privacy

• Authentication stays with VS Code's built-in GitHub provider, using the read:user scope.
• Usage requests go directly to GitHub over HTTPS with TLS verification.
• The extension does not read workspace files or conversations, send telemetry, or log tokens or complete response bodies.

Compatibility

The supported target is GitHub.com on desktop VS Code for Windows. The maintainer has validated the 0.2.3 pilot with a real Copilot account, including connection, quota comparison, refresh, details, calendar modes, light/dark themes and persistence after restarting VS Code. Version 1.0.0 retains that runtime behavior.

Copilot Pace uses an internal GitHub endpoint that may change. Validation of one account does not establish compatibility with every plan, multiple-account setup or corporate proxy. Corporate network and certificate configurations require validation in the target environment. GitHub Enterprise Server, GHE.com and browser-based VS Code are unsupported.

Daily history, individual sessions and usage by model are unavailable.

When a value is unavailable

• No known limit / Quota unavailable: GitHub has not supplied enough information to display a budget or estimate. The extension does not invent missing values.
• Calculating pace: wait until one eligible day has elapsed in the recognized cycle.
• Out of date: a refresh failed and the last successful snapshot is still displayed. Check the message, then refresh or reconnect as appropriate.
• Waiting: GitHub has rate-limited requests. The extension respects the retry delay before trying again.

Feedback and development

Report a bug or request a feature. Include the extension version, VS Code version, operating system and steps to reproduce. Remove account identifiers from screenshots and never include tokens or complete API responses.

For local builds, tests and demo scenarios, see CONTRIBUTING.md. See the changelog for version history and the release guide for distribution details.

Licensed under MIT.