Connect GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot usage is read through the same GitHub App, from the usage reports GitHub keeps for your organization. Your GitHub owner turns on one permission and one policy, then you switch it on here.

What it covers

Copilot seats your organization pays for, on Copilot Business or Enterprise. Seats people pay for themselves aren't visible to any organization, so they can't appear. For each person and day we get how much they used Copilot, how many suggestions they accepted, lines added, and which features they used: chat, agent mode, the CLI, the coding agent and code review. Never prompts, suggestions or code.

Checklist for your GitHub organization owner

1. GitHub is connected in Truly Shipped. See Connect GitHub.
2. Approve the Copilot metrics permission. On GitHub, open your organization's Settings → GitHub Apps → Truly Shipped. If there's a pending request, press Review request and accept the read-only Copilot metrics permission.
3. Turn on the usage metrics policy. Organization Settings → Copilot → Policies, then set Copilot usage metrics to Enabled. If your Copilot seats come through a GitHub Enterprise, an enterprise owner sets it there instead: Enterprise → AI Controls → Copilot → Metrics → Enabled everywhere.

Then, on Connections, press Turn on Copilot usage on the GitHub Copilot card. We fetch up to a year of history straight away.

If it says it can't read the reports

GitHub gives the same answer whichever step is missing, so the card can't tell which one it is. Check all three: GitHub connected, the permission accepted, and the policy enabled. Then press Test connection on the Copilot card.

Why the numbers run 2–3 days behind

GitHub publishes each day's report two to three days after the day ends, and can still revise it in that time. So Copilot numbers for this week fill in over the following days, and we re-read the last few days each night to pick up GitHub's corrections. Claude Code usage doesn't have this lag. GitHub's reports start on October 10, 2025, and go back at most a year.

Coding agent pull requests

When Copilot's coding agent opens a pull request, GitHub lists the agent as the author. We credit the pull request to the person who asked for it, the one it's assigned to, and mark it as agent-authored. Copilot's automatic code reviews, like other bots' reviews, don't count toward time to first review, which measures when a person first looked.

AI credits

The AI leverage page shows the AI credits GitHub reports. GitHub says these aren't the amount you're billed, so treat them as a measure of usage, not cost.