📊 Daily Copilot Token Consumption Report – 2026-03-04

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Executive Summary

Over the tracked period (2026-03-03 → 2026-03-04), Copilot-powered agentic workflows consumed 66,402,651 tokens across 78 workflow runs covering 49 unique workflows. Of those runs, 53 produced token data while 20 runs reported zero tokens (these correspond to workflows that errored out before the agent produced output). The error rate was 30.8% (24 errors across 78 runs), with most errors concentrated on 2026-03-03 (21 errors vs 3 on 2026-03-04).

⚠️ Cost data is not yet available in the telemetry feed (total_cost: $0). Token counts are accurate; USD cost estimates will appear once billing metadata is enabled.

Key Highlights

Metric	Value
📅 Analysis period	2026-03-03 → 2026-03-04
🔢 Total tokens	66,402,651
🔄 Total workflow runs	78 (49 unique workflows)
📈 Avg tokens / run (with data)	1,252,881
🏆 Top consumer	Example: Custom Error Patterns (15.6M tokens, 23.5%)
🏃 Most active workflow	Agent Container Smoke Test (10 runs)
❌ Error rate	30.8% (24 errors)
📆 Days of history	2 (first report; trends will grow)

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📈 Token Usage Trends

Token consumption jumped from 27.2M on 2026-03-03 to 39.2M on 2026-03-04 (+44%), while both days had identical run counts (39 each). This delta reflects higher-cost one-off workflows being triggered on Mar 4 (Slide Deck Maintainer, Documentation Noob Tester, Smoke Multi PR, Glossary Maintainer each consuming 3–5.7M tokens per run).

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🏆 Top Workflows by Token Consumption

Top 10 Most Token-Intensive Workflows

Rank	Workflow	Total Tokens	Runs	Avg Tokens/Run	Avg Duration
1	Example: Custom Error Patterns	15,576,714	3	5,192,238	12.6m
2	Chroma Issue Indexer	10,080,984	6	1,680,164	7.8m
3	Slide Deck Maintainer	5,742,253	1	5,742,253	12.5m
4	Documentation Noob Tester	5,023,043	1	5,023,043	14.8m
5	Smoke Multi PR	3,327,966	1	3,327,966	8.8m
6	Glossary Maintainer	3,310,167	1	3,310,167	10.3m
7	Contribution Check	3,269,903	6	544,984	4.5m
8	jsweep - JavaScript Unbloater	2,214,044	1	2,214,044	13.5m
9	Daily Malicious Code Scan Agent	2,089,388	1	2,089,388	5.9m
10	GitHub Remote MCP Authentication Test	2,013,652	1	2,013,652	5.7m

Together the top 10 account for ~82% of all token consumption.

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🔄 Workflow Runs vs Errors

Error count improved dramatically from 21 errors on 2026-03-03 to 3 errors on 2026-03-04. This likely reflects a fix or infrastructure improvement that resolved a batch of workflow failures overnight.

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💡 Insights & Recommendations

High-Consumption Workflows

1. Example: Custom Error Patterns — 15.6M tokens (23.5% of all consumption), 3 runs, avg 5.2M tokens each

   • Observation: Runs 3× in the period with very high per-run usage (~12.6 min avg). This appears to be a test/example workflow; its high frequency and per-run cost warrants review.
   • Recommendation: Verify this is intentionally running 3× per period. If it's a test workflow, consider rate-limiting or moving to manual-only triggers.

2. Chroma Issue Indexer — 10.1M tokens, 6 runs (highest run count among heavy consumers), avg 1.7M/run

   • Observation: Runs frequently (6 times in 2 days) with moderate per-run cost. Likely a scheduled indexing workflow.
   • Recommendation: Review indexing frequency — if issue data hasn't changed significantly between runs, consider incremental-only indexing to reduce redundant token consumption.

3. Slide Deck Maintainer + Documentation Noob Tester — ~10.8M combined from single runs

   • Observation: Single runs consuming 5–5.7M tokens each suggest very long context windows or large document corpora being processed.
   • Recommendation: Investigate chunking strategies or adding early-exit conditions when content hasn't changed.

Optimization Opportunities

1. Reduce high-frequency test/example workflows

   • Affected: Example: Custom Error Patterns (3 runs × 5.2M = 15.6M tokens)
   • Potential savings: ~10M+ tokens/2 days if reduced to 1 run
   • Action: Change trigger to workflow_dispatch only or reduce to weekly

2. Incremental indexing for Chroma Issue Indexer

   • Affected: Chroma Issue Indexer (6 runs × 1.7M = 10.1M tokens)
   • Potential savings: ~6–8M tokens if only new/changed issues are indexed
   • Action: Add a "last indexed" checkpoint and skip unchanged items

3. Error recovery for 20 zero-token workflows

   • Currently 20 workflows (25.6% of unique workflows) produced zero tokens, indicating early failures
   • Action: Review error logs for the 24 failing runs and fix root causes — recovering even 50% would add meaningful data and reduce wasted compute

4. Context window optimization for long-running workflows

   • Workflows like Documentation Noob Tester (14.8m, 5M tokens) and Slide Deck Maintainer (12.5m, 5.7M) suggest large context accumulation
   • Action: Add summarization steps or rolling context windows to cap per-run token use

Per-Workflow Detailed Statistics (All 49 Workflows)

Workflow	Tokens	Runs	Avg Tokens/Run	Avg Duration	Errors
Example: Custom Error Patterns	15,576,714	3	5,192,238	12.6m	0
Chroma Issue Indexer	10,080,984	6	1,680,164	7.8m	0
Slide Deck Maintainer	5,742,253	1	5,742,253	12.5m	0
Documentation Noob Tester	5,023,043	1	5,023,043	14.8m	0
Smoke Multi PR	3,327,966	1	3,327,966	8.8m	0
Glossary Maintainer	3,310,167	1	3,310,167	10.3m	0
Contribution Check	3,269,903	6	544,984	4.5m	0
jsweep - JavaScript Unbloater	2,214,044	1	2,214,044	13.5m	0
Daily Malicious Code Scan Agent	2,089,388	1	2,089,388	5.9m	0
GitHub Remote MCP Authentication Test	2,013,652	1	2,013,652	5.7m	0
Daily Compiler Quality Check	1,860,184	1	1,860,184	7.5m	0
Agent Container Smoke Test	1,530,955	10	153,096	3.8m	0
Copilot PR Conversation NLP Analysis	1,264,729	1	1,264,729	17.6m	0
Dependabot Dependency Checker	1,167,370	1	1,167,370	7.2m	0
Auto-Triage Issues	946,918	7	135,274	3.4m	3
Daily News	871,146	1	871,146	7.3m	0
Sub-Issue Closer	810,878	1	810,878	6.5m	0
Workflow Health Manager - Meta-Orchestrator	800,663	1	800,663	5.7m	1
Plan Command	603,433	1	603,433	4.6m	0
Terminal Stylist	598,335	1	598,335	5.0m	0
Copilot PR Prompt Pattern Analysis	532,864	1	532,864	6.0m	0
Repository Quality Improvement Agent	486,115	1	486,115	5.7m	0
GPL Dependency Cleaner (gpclean)	441,010	1	441,010	3.6m	0
Daily Regulatory Report Generator	433,136	1	433,136	6.7m	0
Architecture Diagram Generator	383,714	1	383,714	4.7m	0
Daily Workflow Updater	375,972	1	375,972	4.3m	0
Daily Semgrep Scan	304,175	1	304,175	3.4m	0
Dev	186,701	1	186,701	3.9m	0
Smoke Create Cross-Repo PR	156,239	2	78,120	3.2m	1
Daily Copilot Token Consumption Report	0	1	—	19s	0
Release	0	1	—	1.4m	0
Daily MCP Tool Concurrency Analysis	0	1	—	6.0m	1
Smoke Update Cross-Repo PR	0	2	—	1.6m	2
Copilot CLI Deep Research Agent	0	1	—	2.3m	1
Daily Secrets Analysis Agent	0	1	—	2.0m	1
Daily Syntax Error Quality Check	0	1	—	2.7m	1
Dead Code Removal Agent	0	1	—	2.6m	1
The Great Escapi	0	1	—	2.4m	1
The Daily Repository Chronicle	0	1	—	3.1m	1
Daily Testify Uber Super Expert	0	1	—	2.8m	1
Daily Copilot PR Merged Report	0	1	—	2.6m	1
Daily CLI Performance Agent	0	1	—	4.1m	1
Super Linter Report	0	1	—	2.9m	1
Breaking Change Checker	0	1	—	2.5m	1
CLI Consistency Checker	0	1	—	2.2m	1
Daily File Diet	0	1	—	2.6m	1
CI Optimization Coach	0	1	—	6.1m	1
Draft PR Cleanup	0	1	—	2.1m	1
Delight	0	1	—	1.9m	1

Rows with 0 tokens indicate runs that failed before the agent produced output (these account for all 24 errors).

Methodology & Data Quality Notes

Methodology

• Data source: Pre-downloaded workflow telemetry from /tmp/gh-aw/copilot-logs.json
• Engine filter: Copilot engine only
• Analysis period: 2026-03-03 → 2026-03-04 (2 days)
• Memory storage: /tmp/gh-aw/repo-memory/default/token-metrics-history.jsonl
• Analysis timestamp: 2026-03-04T11:20 UTC
• Historical data: 1 day stored (this is the first run — trends will accumulate over time)

Data Quality Notes

• Cost data unavailable: total_cost reported as $0 in the telemetry feed; USD estimates will appear once billing metadata is connected
• Zero-token runs: 20 workflows (25.6%) reported 0 tokens — these correlate 1:1 with errored runs and do not represent missing data
• Duration parsing: Durations were extracted from human-readable strings (4.3m, 19.0s) and may have minor rounding
• No deduplication applied: Each workflow run is counted separately; re-runs of the same workflow appear as separate entries

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References:

• §22666780990 — This report's workflow run
• §22664669146 — Glossary Maintainer (top-6 consumer)
• §22663136749 — Daily Workflow Updater

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