Copilot Insights for Visual Studio

See your GitHub Copilot plan, quotas, reset window, and premium usage pacing directly inside Visual Studio.

Overview

Copilot Insights gives you a fast, local view of the quota and entitlement data already associated with your GitHub Copilot account.

It focuses on practical visibility, not team analytics. It helps answer questions like:

• How much premium quota is left?
• When does quota reset?
• Am I likely to run out before reset?
• Is overage enabled, and what could it cost?
• Which organizations are providing Copilot access?

Highlights

• Native Visual Studio tool window (Copilot Insights) with quota cards and plan details.
• Premium quota health, mood, and remaining/used/total breakdown.
• Reset timing display with countdown and local reset date.
• Pacing guidance for daily, weekly, and workday usage.
• Premium projection and capacity estimates by model cost (0.33x, 1x, 3x).
• Overage messaging with estimated cost when overage is permitted.
• Manual refresh button from inside the tool window.

What You Get

Quota cards

Each quota card shows:

• Quota status and health badge.
• Limited vs unlimited handling.
• Remaining/used values and percentages.
• Over-quota details when applicable.

For premium_interactions, the extension also shows:

• Mood indicator and remaining percentage.
• Reset timing summary.
• Projection before reset.
• Daily capacity estimates by model cost multiplier.
• Overage policy summary.

Reset timing and pacing

The tool window includes:

• Reset countdown (days/hours).
• Reset date converted to local time.
• Pacing guidance to stay within premium quota:
  • Daily
  • Weekly
  • Workday (Mon-Fri)

Plan details

A summary card with:

• Copilot plan
• Chat availability
• Access SKU
• Organization access list/count

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2022 (with support for Microsoft.VisualStudio.Extensibility)
• GitHub CLI (gh) installed and available on PATH
• GitHub account with Copilot access

Important: GitHub CLI authentication

This extension retrieves your token via:

gh auth token

Before using the extension, authenticate with GitHub CLI:

gh auth login

If gh is missing or not authenticated, the extension cannot fetch Copilot data.

Installation and Run (Development)

1. Clone this repository.
2. Open vs-copilot-insights.slnx in Visual Studio.
3. Restore/build the solution.
4. Start the extension debug session (experimental instance) from Visual Studio.
5. Open Extensions menu and run Copilot Insights command.

Data Source and Privacy

The extension calls:

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

using your local GitHub CLI auth token.

No external service is used by this project to store your Copilot quota data.

Troubleshooting

Could not obtain a GitHub token

• Ensure GitHub CLI is installed: gh --version
• Ensure you are logged in: gh auth status
• If needed, run: gh auth login

API errors (403/404)

• Your account/org/tenant may not expose this Copilot endpoint.
• The endpoint is internal and may change over time.

No data in the tool window

• Confirm your GitHub account has Copilot access.
• Use the in-window Refresh button.
• Verify your network and GitHub authentication state.