[api-consumption] 📊 GitHub API Consumption Report — 2026-07-21

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📊 GitHub API Consumption Report

Report Date: 2026-07-21 · Repository: github/gh-aw · Run: #29825753050

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Today at a Glance

Metric	Value
🤖 Total Runs	198 (184 ✅ / 14 ❌)
🎯 Success Rate	92.9%
🔗 GitHub REST API Calls	90,320 (core quota consumed — includes reads, writes, and all GitHub API operations)
📝 Safe-Output Writes	283 (issues + PRs + comments + discussions created by safe-output tools)
⏱ Avg Duration	522.8s (p95: 1092.4s)

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🔗 GitHub API Calls Trend (90 days)

Daily REST API consumption remains volatile but the 7-day rolling average has climbed steadily since early July, now sitting near 118k/day. The standout remains the 574k spike on Jun 17 — roughly 6× a normal day — with secondary bursts on Jul 04 (183k) and the 276k peak on Jul 14. Today's 90,320 calls land just below the rolling average, a calmer day after that mid-July surge.

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🔗 GitHub API Calls by Workflow Trend (30 days)

The PR-review family — Design Decision Gate, the two Skills Reviewers, PR Code Quality Reviewer, and Test Quality Sentinel — consistently tops the by-workflow ranking day after day, tracking PR activity. Tidy shows spikier behaviour: low most days, then occasional large single-run bursts (11k today across just 9 runs). No new workflow has broken into the top tier over the last 30 days.

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🔗 GitHub REST API Calls Heatmap (90 days)

Consumption concentrates on weekdays, mirroring PR and development activity, with weekends noticeably cooler. The single darkest cell corresponds to the mid-June 574k anomaly, which dominates the color scale and makes routine daily variation appear muted by comparison. The most recent two weeks show a consistent warm weekday band, in line with the rising rolling average.

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🍩 Top API Burners (24h)

The top 7 named workflows account for ~81% of today's 90,320 calls, with a long tail ("Other" = 19%) spread across ~78 low-volume workflows. No single workflow dominates — the leader, Design Decision Gate at 14%, is closely trailed by Tidy, Test Quality Sentinel, and both Skills Reviewers (11–12% each). Concentration risk is moderate: the PR-review cluster collectively drives the majority of quota.

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🔗 GitHub REST API Consumption by Workflow (last 24h)

The five PR-review workflows plus Tidy each consume ~9k–13k calls/day. No single run approached the 15,000/hr limit on its own (heaviest single run: Test Quality Sentinel at 653). However, the shared hourly quota dipped as low as 267 remaining during a busy window — evidence that concentrated bursts of many small runs (PR Triage, Sub-Issue Closer, Issue Monster firing together) can crowd the per-hour ceiling. Optimisation opportunity: stagger or debounce the PR-review cluster so multiple reviewers don't fan out on the same PR event simultaneously.

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Top 10 Workflows by REST API Consumption (last 24h)

Workflow	REST API Calls	Runs	Avg Duration
Design Decision Gate 🏗️	12,719	18	353.8s
Tidy	11,157	9	689.1s
Test Quality Sentinel	10,483	17	392.1s
Impeccable Skills Reviewer	9,818	17	367.0s
Matt Pocock Skills Reviewer	9,741	17	442.8s
PR Code Quality Reviewer	9,296	17	513.0s
PR Sous Chef	6,928	7	455.4s
Smoke Claude	2,895	5	552.4s
PR Description Updater	2,127	6	336.5s
Daily Agent of the Day Blog Writer	1,567	1	916.0s

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Trending Indicators

• 7-day API trend: ↑ +51.8% vs. previous 7 days
• 30-day API trend: ↑ +16.2% vs. prior 30 days
• GitHub REST API call rate: ~117,613 calls/day over last 7 days (hourly limit: 15,000/hr — a ~4,900/hr average, so headroom exists except during concentrated bursts)

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📦 Cache Memory Status

• Location: /tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/trending/api-consumption/history.jsonl
• Cache restored from previous run: yes (62 entries)
• Collection mode: incremental
• Logs start_date used: -1d
• Data points stored: 62
• Earliest entry: 2026-05-18
• Retention policy: 90 days

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