AI Credits Near-Limit Warning
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Description
Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve
Visual Studio 2026 Professional IDE warns users in chats sessions when they are nearing their AI Credits limit for their GitHub Copilot subscription. It would be great to have the GitHub Copilot CLI have this feature parity.
Proposed solution
at the beginning of each new chat session for GitHub Copilot CLI, if the session is valid (i.e. successful user login/authentication), and the user has spent more than 80% of their total AI credit limit according to their GitHub Copilot subscription, then show a brief warning message at the chat session start, to notify them, with an optional URL to visit to increase their limit.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the GitHub Copilot CLI entry point for the beginning of a new chat session and the successful login/authentication path. Determine how the user's GitHub Copilot subscription credit usage and total limit can be accessed. Done means an authenticated session shows a brief warning above 80% usage, optionally linking to a page where the limit can be increased.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100