[copilot-token-audit] Daily Copilot Token Usage Audit — 2026-04-15

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📊 Executive Summary

• Period: 2026-04-15 (last 24 hours)
• Total runs: 98 completed (of 100 triggered)
• Total tokens: 74,512,455
• Total cost: $0.00
• Total Actions minutes: 661 min
• Active workflows: 41

Token usage is up +9.1% compared to yesterday (68,304,965 tokens / 99 runs on 2026-04-14).

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🏆 Top 5 Workflows by Token Usage

Workflow	Runs	Total Tokens	Avg Tokens	Total Cost	Avg Cost
Test Quality Sentinel	40	14,172,020	354,300	$0.00	$0.00
Daily Syntax Error Quality Check	1	7,180,445	7,180,445	$0.00	$0.00
Contribution Check	4	6,270,849	1,567,712	$0.00	$0.00
Daily Community Attribution Updater	1	6,074,098	6,074,098	$0.00	$0.00
Release	1	3,653,077	3,653,077	$0.00	$0.00

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📈 Trends

Day-over-day: Tokens increased by +6,207,490 (+9.1%) vs yesterday. The jump is primarily driven by single high-volume one-off runs (Daily Syntax Error Quality Check at 7.2M tokens, Daily Community Attribution Updater at 6.1M tokens).

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💡 Observations

🔴 Heavy hitter — Test Quality Sentinel accounts for 19.0% of all tokens (14.2M / 74.5M) despite being the most-run workflow (40 runs). While under the 30% threshold individually, its volume dominance warrants monitoring.

⚠️ Workflows with high error rates (errors per run > 30%):

Workflow	Runs	Errors	Error Rate
Auto-Triage Issues	8	8	100%
Contribution Check	4	3	75%
Copilot PR Conversation NLP Analysis	1	1	100%
GitHub Remote MCP Authentication Test	1	1	100%
Daily Issues Report Generator	1	1	100%
Daily News	1	1	100%

⚠️ Workflows with avg tokens > 100K per run (excluding one-off runs already in Top 5):

Workflow	Runs	Avg Tokens/Run
Agent Persona Explorer	1	3,089,819
Package Specification Extractor	1	2,569,983
Workflow Normalizer	1	2,453,953
Package Specification Librarian	1	2,444,008
Daily Compiler Quality Check	1	2,295,902
Copilot CLI Deep Research Agent	1	2,086,831
jsweep - JavaScript Unbloater	1	1,981,899
Daily CLI Tools Exploratory Tester	1	1,976,230

🟡 Workflows consuming 0 tokens with errors — Auto-Triage Issues, Daily Issues Report Generator, and Daily News each had 100% error rates with zero token consumption, suggesting early failures before agent execution.

Full Per-Workflow Breakdown (41 workflows)

Workflow	Runs	Total Tokens	Avg Tokens	Errors	Warnings
Test Quality Sentinel	40	14,172,020	354,300	0	0
Daily Syntax Error Quality Check	1	7,180,445	7,180,445	0	0
Contribution Check	4	6,270,849	1,567,712	3	0
Daily Community Attribution Updater	1	6,074,098	6,074,098	0	0
Release	1	3,653,077	3,653,077	0	0
Agent Persona Explorer	1	3,089,819	3,089,819	0	0
Package Specification Extractor	1	2,569,983	2,569,983	0	0
Workflow Normalizer	1	2,453,953	2,453,953	0	0
Package Specification Librarian	1	2,444,008	2,444,008	0	0
Daily Compiler Quality Check	1	2,295,902	2,295,902	0	0
Copilot CLI Deep Research Agent	1	2,086,831	2,086,831	0	0
jsweep - JavaScript Unbloater	1	1,981,899	1,981,899	0	0
Daily CLI Tools Exploratory Tester	1	1,976,230	1,976,230	0	0
Glossary Maintainer	1	1,701,929	1,701,929	0	0
Issue Monster	6	1,529,443	254,907	0	0
Smoke Copilot	2	1,489,028	744,514	0	0
Dev	1	1,283,420	1,283,420	0	0
Agent Performance Analyzer - Meta-Orchestrator	1	1,244,084	1,244,084	0	0
Copilot PR Conversation NLP Analysis	1	1,045,668	1,045,668	1	0
Daily MCP Tool Concurrency Analysis	1	959,352	959,352	0	0
PR Triage Agent	2	920,002	460,001	0	0
Daily Semgrep Scan	1	831,661	831,661	0	0
Copilot PR Prompt Pattern Analysis	1	825,921	825,921	0	0
Sub-Issue Closer	1	652,209	652,209	0	0
Daily Safe Output Integrator	1	644,242	644,242	0	0
Daily Malicious Code Scan Agent	1	608,488	608,488	0	0
Architecture Diagram Generator	1	593,720	593,720	0	0
Dependabot Dependency Checker	1	586,347	586,347	0	0
Draft PR Cleanup	1	538,366	538,366	0	0
Daily Regulatory Report Generator	1	509,259	509,259	0	0
GPL Dependency Cleaner (gpclean)	1	464,743	464,743	0	0
Refactoring Cadence	1	448,373	448,373	0	0
Daily Workflow Updater	1	375,561	375,561	0	0
Daily Secrets Analysis Agent	1	342,555	342,555	0	0
Agent Container Smoke Test	2	292,438	146,219	0	0
Daily Hippo Learn	1	278,783	278,783	0	0
GitHub Remote MCP Authentication Test	1	97,749	97,749	1	0
Daily Issues Report Generator	1	0	0	1	0
Daily News	1	0	0	1	0
Auto-Triage Issues	8	0	0	8	0
Daily Project Performance Summary Generator (Using MCP Scripts)	1	0	0	0	0

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Data snapshot: memory/token-audit/2026-04-15.json

References:

• §24452438301 — this audit run

Generated by Daily Copilot Token Usage Audit · ● 1.3M · ◷

• expires on Apr 18, 2026, 12:03 PM UTC

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