GitHub Copilot Insights Dashboard

Version: 2.0.3 | Author: Jadhav Shubhamm | License: MIT
VS Code Compatibility: ^1.95.0 | Publisher: ShubhJ

A comprehensive Visual Studio Code extension that provides a unified dashboard for managing your GitHub Copilot accounts, browsing chat sessions & history, monitoring real AI usage statistics, viewing MCP server connections, inspecting language models, and managing authentication — all from within VS Code. 100% offline — no internet or external API calls required.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Quick Start
• Dashboard Tabs
• Commands
• Account Management
• Data Sources
• Privacy & Security
• Troubleshooting
• Support

Features

📊 Account Overview

• View all connected GitHub, Microsoft, and GitHub Enterprise accounts
• See account connection status, session information, and OAuth scopes
• Detect which account is actively used by Copilot (via state.vscdb analysis)
• View trusted extensions per account with last-used timestamps

🤖 GitHub Copilot & Chat Integration

• Monitor GitHub Copilot and Copilot Chat installation status and version
• Identify the active Copilot account with detection strategy details
• View real-time usage metrics: AI rate, accepted suggestions, chat edits
• Interactive charts with period filters (Today / This Week / This Month / All)

💬 Chat Sessions & History

• Browse all Copilot chat sessions across every workspace
• View sessions by type: Agent, Ask, Chat, Plan, and Custom Agents (e.g. @powerpages)
• Expandable session cards with full message history (user prompts + Copilot responses)
• Agent session summaries: request count, checkpoints, file edits, code insertions/deletions
• Reopen sessions directly from the dashboard (workspace-scoped)
• Workspace-aware: current workspace sessions highlighted with left border; other workspaces shown with lock icon
• Filter by type, workspace, search text; sort by newest, oldest, most messages, or name
• Data sourced from agentSessions.model.cache, chatSessions/*.json, and chatEditingSessions/

📈 AI Stats — Real Usage Data

• Read real AI usage statistics from VS Code's workspace state.vscdb files
• Track: AI characters vs typed characters, acceptance rate, inline suggestions, chat edits
• Multi-workspace support with workspace filter dropdown
• Six interactive charts: AI Rate, AI vs Typed, Accepted Suggestions, Chat Edits, Sessions
• Same data shown by VS Code's built-in editor.aiStats.enabled feature
• Setting detection: checks editor.aiStats.enabled on every refresh (sidebar, dashboard, and AI Stats tab)
• Warning banners in Copilot & Chat tab, AI Stats tab, and Sidebar when setting is disabled
• Stale data detection: if the setting was on earlier but is now off, warns with the last recorded date
• Old data still displayed below the warning (not hidden)
• FAQ in Info tab: explains why data may be missing, whether it can be recovered, and why the setting resets

🔌 MCP Server Monitoring

• Auto-discover all Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from:
  • Workspace .vscode/mcp.json
  • Workspace root mcp.json and vscode/mcp.json
  • User home ~/.vscode/mcp.json
  • VS Code settings (mcp.servers)
• View server name, command, args, type, and config file location
• See all MCP-provided tools with descriptions and tags
• One-click open of any MCP config file from the dashboard

🧠 Language Models & Tools

• List all available LLMs via vscode.lm.selectChatModels()
• View model vendor, family, version, and max input/output token limits
• Context window token analysis with real countTokens() measurements
• List all registered LM tools (MCP tools + built-in extension tools)

🔧 Readiness Checks

• Automatic validation: accounts, Copilot extensions, sessions, models, MCP
• Clear status indicators: ✅ Ready / ⚠️ Warning / ❌ Error
• Actionable issue descriptions to resolve problems

⚡ Sidebar View

• Compact sidebar with weekly AI metrics (AI rate, sessions, suggestions, chat edits)
• AI Stats disabled warning — shows a banner when editor.aiStats.enabled is off
• Copilot Chat status and last-used account
• Models count and MCP servers list
• Quick action button: Open Full Dashboard
• Loading screen with spinning animation and random AI-themed inspiration messages
• Error screen with troubleshooting steps and admin contact info

Quick Start

1. Install the extension from a .vsix file or development mode (see INSTALLATION_GUIDE.md)
2. Click the GitHub icon in the Activity Bar to open the sidebar
3. Click "Open Full Dashboard" for the detailed view
4. Sign in to GitHub if prompted — all tabs populate automatically

Dashboard Tabs

Commands

Access via Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P):

A status bar item ($(github) GHCP) is also available — click it to open the dashboard.

Account Management

Switching Accounts

1. Run GHCP: Switch GitHub Account from the Command Palette
2. Choose: Sign out of GitHub, Sign out of Microsoft, Sign in to GitHub, or Manage Accounts

Adding Accounts

• Click "Sign in to GitHub" or "Sign in to Microsoft" from the sidebar or dashboard
• Follow the browser authentication flow
• Dashboard auto-refreshes when authentication sessions change

Active Copilot Detection

The extension uses a 3-strategy approach to detect your active Copilot account:

1. State DB scan — reads github.copilot-github key from VS Code's state.vscdb
2. Default session — queries vscode.authentication.getSession() (silent)
3. Usage timestamp — finds the account with the most recent github.copilot-chat trusted extension entry

Data Sources

All data is sourced locally from VS Code. No external API calls, no internet required.

Privacy & Security

• 100% offline — no data is sent to any external server
• Access tokens are partially masked (••••••XXXX) — never fully exposed
• State database reads are read-only — the extension never writes to state.vscdb
• MCP configurations are read directly from local files
• All webview content uses Content Security Policy with nonces

Troubleshooting

Support

• Author: Jadhav Shubhamm — AI Developer
• Email: sj.techconnect@gmail.com
• Debug: Check VS Code Output panel → "GHCP Dashboard" or Developer Tools console

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