[copilot-token-audit] 📊 Daily Copilot Token Usage Audit — 2026-04-28

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📊 Executive Summary

• Period: last 30 days snapshot (as of 2026-04-28)
• Total runs: 99
• Total tokens: 48,474,287
• Total cost: $0.00 (internal Copilot — billing not exposed)
• Total Actions minutes: 569 min
• Active workflows: 35

Day-over-day: -38.1% vs yesterday (78.3M tokens, 140 runs) — today's lower run count (99 vs 140) explains most of the reduction.

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🏆 Top 5 Workflows by Token Usage

Workflow	Runs	Total Tokens	Avg Tokens/Run	Errors
Test Quality Sentinel	30	8,775,294	292,510	3
Daily Community Attribution Updater	1	7,043,672	7,043,672	0
Q	2	5,548,183	2,774,092	0
Daily Syntax Error Quality Check	1	3,538,541	3,538,541	0
Daily Security Observability Report	1	3,317,628	3,317,628	0

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📈 Charts

Token Usage by Workflow (Top 15)

Historical Daily Token Usage (19 days)

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💡 Observations

• 🔴 Heavy hitter: Daily Community Attribution Updater consumed 7.04M tokens in a single run (14.5% of total) — avg per run exceeds 100K threshold by 70×
• 🔴 Heavy hitter: Q averaged 2.77M tokens/run (11.4% of total in 2 runs) — high per-run cost
• 🔴 Heavy hitter: Daily Syntax Error Quality Check and Daily Security Observability Report each used 3.2–3.5M tokens in single runs
• ⚠️ Errors: Smoke CI (27 runs, 10 errors) has the highest error count — 37% error rate warrants investigation
• ⚠️ Errors: Contribution Check had 2 errors in 3 runs (67% error rate)
• i️ Test Quality Sentinel is the highest-volume workflow by run count (30 runs) but maintains reasonable 292K avg tokens/run
• i️ 5 workflows (Smoke CI, Sub-Issue Closer, Daily Issues Report Generator, Daily News, GPL Dependency Cleaner) recorded 0 tokens — may be failing early or not using the Copilot engine directly

Full Per-Workflow Breakdown (35 workflows)

Workflow	Runs	Total Tokens	Avg Tokens	Errors
Test Quality Sentinel	30	8,775,294	292,510	3
Daily Community Attribution Updater	1	7,043,672	7,043,672	0
Q	2	5,548,183	2,774,092	0
Daily Syntax Error Quality Check	1	3,538,541	3,538,541	0
Daily Security Observability Report	1	3,317,628	3,317,628	0
Contribution Check	3	2,900,517	966,839	2
Daily Testify Uber Super Expert	1	1,423,162	1,423,162	1
jsweep - JavaScript Unbloater	1	1,396,485	1,396,485	0
Daily CLI Tools Exploratory Tester	1	1,218,614	1,218,614	0
Glossary Maintainer	1	1,157,663	1,157,663	1
Copilot PR Conversation NLP Analysis	1	1,083,888	1,083,888	1
Package Specification Extractor	1	1,005,381	1,005,381	0
Architecture Diagram Generator	1	981,814	981,814	0
Dev	1	936,792	936,792	0
Code Simplifier	1	873,507	873,507	1
Daily MCP Tool Concurrency Analysis	1	873,150	873,150	0
Issue Monster	5	823,009	164,602	0
Smoke Copilot	1	729,889	729,889	0
Agent Performance Analyzer - Meta-Orchestrator	1	712,500	712,500	0
Functional Pragmatist	1	673,691	673,691	0
Daily CLI Performance Agent	1	655,350	655,350	0
Daily Hippo Learn	1	543,444	543,444	1
PR Triage Agent	2	540,901	270,450	0
Agent Persona Explorer	1	405,669	405,669	0
Auto-Triage Issues	2	322,219	161,110	0
Copilot PR Prompt Pattern Analysis	1	304,277	304,277	0
Update Astro	1	301,273	301,273	1
Refactoring Cadence	1	276,915	276,915	0
Agent Container Smoke Test	1	110,859	110,859	0
Smoke CI	27	0	0	10
Sub-Issue Closer	1	0	0	1
Daily Issues Report Generator	1	0	0	1
Daily News	1	0	0	1
GPL Dependency Cleaner (gpclean)	1	0	0	1
GitHub Remote MCP Authentication Test	1	0	0	1

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Data snapshot: memory/token-audit/2026-04-28.json

References: Workflow Run §25051478897

Generated by Daily Copilot Token Usage Audit · ● 1.5M · ◷

• expires on May 1, 2026, 12:27 PM UTC