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/usage premium request counter significantly undercounts actual quota consumption #1582

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@speedo17
  • Copilot CLI version: 0.0.413
  • OS: macOS
  • Session: ~24h single session, resumed with --resume

Describe the bug

The /usage command reports a much lower premium request count than what is actually consumed from the monthly quota.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Start a long Copilot CLI session with heavy tool use (bash, edit, view, grep — no sub-agents)
  2. Resume the session with --resume across launches
  3. Check /usage — shows 6 Premium requests
  4. Check remaining quota — dropped from >80% → <70% (300 request quota = ~30+ requests consumed)

Expected behavior

/usage session counter should match (or closely approximate) the number of requests deducted from the monthly quota.

Actual behavior

/usage shows 6 requests; quota indicates ~30+ were consumed. The counter also appears to reset or drop after context compaction (auto-summarization): token counts dropped
from 1.4M input / 3.9K output → 583K input / 1.1K output mid-session, and the counter restarted from a lower number.

Additional context

Compaction events may consume requests that are not carried over in the /usage counter after summarization. It is unclear whether quota consumption includes background
operations not surfaced in the session counter.

Activity

  1. added theissue type on Feb 20, 2026
  2. added
    area:toolsBuilt-in tools: file editing, shell, search, LSP, git, and tool call behavior
    on Apr 6, 2026
  3. patniko commented on Oct 26, 2026

    @patniko
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    Thanks for the report. We've shipped fixes in this area since this was filed, and we believe this may now be resolved. Could you retest on the latest release (Copilot CLI v1.0.103) and let us know whether you still see it? If we don't hear back in a couple of weeks, we may close this issue — you can always reopen it.

    Triaged as part of a Copilot SDK backlog review, with help from GitHub Copilot.

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