Copilot Insights (VS Code Extension)

Understand your GitHub Copilot plan and quotas at a glance — in the VS Code sidebar and status bar.

What it does

Copilot Insights surfaces your GitHub Copilot entitlement/quota information and presents it in a VS Code-friendly UI:

• Sidebar view with quota cards and pacing guidance
• Status bar indicator for Premium Interactions (remaining / total + %)
• One-time warning when Premium usage exceeds 85% of your monthly quota
• Auto-refresh when the view becomes visible
• Manual refresh button in the view title bar

Note: This view shows plan and quota status. It is not a usage report.

Features

• Sidebar (Copilot Insights):
  • Shows your Copilot plan details
  • Lists organizations where you have Copilot access
  • Displays quota cards with progress bars and pacing guidance
  • Auto-refreshes when the view becomes visible
  • Manual refresh button in the title bar
  • Status bar indicator:
    • Compact view of Premium Interactions remaining/total + percentage
    • Severity icons based on remaining percentage
    • Tooltip with reset information
      • Shows a warning notification once per reset cycle when usage passes 85%

Screenshots

Sidebar (Copilot Insights)

Sidebar: “Insights” view

Open the Copilot Insights icon in the Activity Bar.

Quotas (top section)

• Shows each quota (e.g. Premium Interactions, Chat, Completions)
• Handles Unlimited quotas correctly
• Progress bar + remaining/used/total for limited quotas
• Pacing helpers:
  • To last until reset: ≤ X/day
  • Reset in: Xd Xh
  • Reset Date (UTC)
  • Projections premium requests before the reset:
    • Weekly average + workday/workhour averages

Plan Details

• Plan (e.g. Enterprise)
• Chat enabled
• Orgs count

Organizations with Copilot Access

• Lists org name + login so you can see where Copilot is enabled for you

Access Details

• Access / SKU
• Assigned date

Freshness

• “Last fetched: …” shown at the bottom
• Warning banner if data appears stale (older than 1 hour)

Status bar

A compact status bar item shows your Premium Interactions remaining at a glance, for example:

• Copilot: 975/1000 (98%)

It also adapts the icon based on remaining percentage and includes a tooltip with reset information.

Getting started

1. Install the extension (Marketplace / .vsix / local dev)
2. Open Copilot Insights from the Activity Bar
3. When prompted, sign in to GitHub using VS Code authentication
4. Review your plan + quotas
5. Use the refresh icon in the view title bar if needed

Refresh behavior

• Automatic: refreshes whenever the Insights view becomes visible
• Manual: run Copilot Insights: Refresh or click the refresh icon in the view title bar

How pacing is calculated (important)

Pacing is based on:

• remaining (from the quota snapshot)
• The time between:
  • the latest snapshot timestamp_utc (as-of)
  • quota_reset_date_utc (reset)

All displayed pacing values use floor(...) (rounded down) so they remain conservative.

Daily average (all days)

• allowedPerDay = floor(remaining / daysUntilReset)

Weekly average (minimum 1 week)

To avoid misleading weekly values when less than one week remains:

• weeksRemaining = max(1, floor(daysUntilReset / 7))
• allowedPerWeek = floor(remaining / weeksRemaining)

Workday / workhour averages (Mon–Fri, 9–5)

Workdays are approximated proportionally:

• workingDays ≈ floor(daysUntilReset * 5/7)
• allowedPerWorkDay = floor(remaining / workingDays) (if workingDays > 0)

Working hours assume 8 hours/day (9:00–17:00):

• totalWorkingHours = workingDays * 8
• allowedPerHour = floor(remaining / totalWorkingHours) (if totalWorkingHours > 0)

These workday/workhour numbers are approximations (they don’t iterate real calendar weekdays).

Data source & permissions

Copilot Insights uses VS Code’s built-in GitHub authentication and calls:

• https://api.github.com/copilot_internal/user

Authentication is handled via VS Code’s GitHub auth provider.

Troubleshooting

“No quota data available”

• Verify you’re signed into the correct GitHub account in VS Code
• Ensure your account has Copilot enabled
• Use the refresh command/icon

GitHub API errors (403/404)

• Your account/tenant may not have access to this endpoint
• The endpoint may change (it is internal)

Development

npm install
npm run watch

Press F5 in VS Code to start an Extension Development Host.

License

Add your preferred license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.).