📊 Daily Copilot Token Consumption Report - January 23, 2026

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Executive Summary

Over the analysis period (last 30 days of data), Copilot-powered agentic workflows consumed 114,462,428 tokens at an estimated cost of $343.39, across 211 workflow runs covering 52 unique workflows.

Key Highlights:

• Highest consuming workflow: CI Cleaner (21.1M tokens, $63.16, 3 runs)
• Most active workflow: Code Scanning Fixer (40 runs, 7.8M tokens, $23.45)
• Average cost per run: $1.63
• Cost concentration: Top 3 workflows account for 40.2% of total costs

🏆 Top 10 Workflows by Token Consumption

Rank	Workflow	Total Tokens	Total Cost	Runs	Avg Tokens/Run
1	CI Cleaner	21,053,795	$63.16	3	7,017,932
2	Agent Persona Explorer	18,357,914	$55.07	2	9,178,957
3	Code Scanning Fixer	7,816,958	$23.45	40	195,424
4	Smoke Copilot	5,755,355	$17.27	28	205,548
5	Issue Monster	5,598,141	$16.79	35	159,947
6	Security Fix PR	3,870,651	$11.61	10	387,065
7	Documentation Noob Tester	2,961,059	$8.88	2	1,480,530
8	CLI Consistency Checker	2,727,999	$8.18	1	2,727,999
9	Ubuntu Actions Image Analyzer	2,721,574	$8.16	1	2,721,574
10	Workflow Health Manager	2,617,391	$7.85	2	1,308,696

💡 Key Insights & Recommendations

1. High Per-Run Cost Workflows

The following workflows have exceptionally high token consumption per run:

CI Cleaner - $21.05 per run (18.4% of total costs)

• Observation: Consuming 7M tokens per run, suggesting extensive repository analysis or large-scale cleanup operations
• Recommendation: Consider implementing caching for repository state, incremental analysis, or breaking into smaller targeted workflows. Review if all analysis is necessary on every run.
• Potential Savings: If optimized to 50% efficiency, could save ~$31.58 per month

Agent Persona Explorer - $27.54 per run (16.0% of total costs)

• Observation: Highest average cost per run at 9.2M tokens, indicating complex persona analysis or extensive iteration
• Recommendation: Implement result caching for persona definitions, reduce exploratory iterations, or use a more targeted exploration strategy
• Potential Savings: Could save ~$27.54 per month if run frequency is reduced or optimized

CLI Consistency Checker - $8.18 per run (single run consumed 2.7M tokens)

• Observation: High token usage for consistency checking suggests comprehensive codebase scanning
• Recommendation: Implement incremental checking (only changed files), use AST-based analysis instead of full text processing, or cache previous analysis results
• Potential Savings: With incremental approach, could reduce to <$2 per run

2. High-Frequency Workflows

Code Scanning Fixer - 40 runs ($23.45 total, $0.59/run)

• Status: ✅ Well-optimized per-run cost, high success rate (97.5%)
• Observation: Most active workflow with consistent performance
• Recommendation: Maintain current efficiency; consider this as a benchmark for other workflows

Issue Monster - 35 runs ($16.79 total, $0.48/run)

• Status: ⚠️ High failure rate (77%) despite low per-run cost
• Observation: Frequent failures suggest unstable workflow or challenging task
• Recommendation: Investigate failure patterns - may need better error handling, task decomposition, or prerequisite checks to reduce wasted token consumption on failed runs

Smoke Copilot - 28 runs ($17.27 total, $0.62/run)

• Status: ✅ Perfect success rate (100%), consistent performance
• Recommendation: Continue as-is; serves as reliability benchmark

3. Efficiency Opportunities

Auto-Triage Issues - 23 runs, only $0.24/run

• Observation: Excellent efficiency with 95.7% success rate
• Best Practice: Analyze this workflow's prompt structure and task decomposition as a model for other workflows

AI Moderator - 5 runs, only $0.11/run

• Observation: Most cost-efficient workflow
• Best Practice: Review for patterns that could be applied to optimize higher-cost workflows

4. Cost Concentration Analysis

Top 3 workflows account for 40.2% of total costs:

• CI Cleaner: 18.4%
• Agent Persona Explorer: 16.0%
• Code Scanning Fixer: 6.8%

Optimization Priority: Focus on the top 2 workflows for maximum impact. Even a 25% reduction in CI Cleaner and Agent Persona Explorer would save ~$30/month.

📊 Workflow Success Rates

Success Rate	Count	Examples
100%	41 workflows	Smoke Copilot, CI Cleaner, Security Fix PR
90-99%	5 workflows	Code Scanning Fixer (97.5%), Auto-Triage Issues (95.7%)
50-89%	1 workflow	Q (50%)
<50%	1 workflow	Issue Monster (22.9%)

Recommendation: Investigate Issue Monster's 77% failure rate to reduce wasted token consumption on failed runs.

View All Workflow Statistics

Complete Workflow Breakdown

Workflow	Total Tokens	Total Cost	Runs	Success	Failure	Avg Tokens/Run	Avg Cost/Run	Avg Duration
CI Cleaner	21,053,795	$63.16	3	3	0	7,017,932	$21.0538	27.4m
Agent Persona Explorer	18,357,914	$55.07	2	2	0	9,178,957	$27.5369	58.8m
Code Scanning Fixer	7,816,958	$23.45	40	39	1	195,424	$0.5863	3.0m
Smoke Copilot	5,755,355	$17.27	28	28	0	205,548	$0.6166	4.4m
Issue Monster	5,598,141	$16.79	35	8	27	159,947	$0.4798	3.6m
Security Fix PR	3,870,651	$11.61	10	10	0	387,065	$1.1612	3.8m
Documentation Noob Tester	2,961,059	$8.88	2	2	0	1,480,530	$4.4416	8.4m
CLI Consistency Checker	2,727,999	$8.18	1	1	0	2,727,999	$8.1840	9.3m
Ubuntu Actions Image Analyzer	2,721,574	$8.16	1	1	0	2,721,574	$8.1647	9.2m
Workflow Health Manager - Meta-Orchestrator	2,617,391	$7.85	2	2	0	1,308,696	$3.9261	7.9m
Layout Specification Maintainer	2,486,340	$7.46	2	2	0	1,243,170	$3.7295	9.4m
Daily News	2,263,032	$6.79	2	2	0	1,131,516	$3.3945	7.8m
Daily Workflow Updater	2,224,618	$6.67	2	2	0	1,112,309	$3.3369	4.5m
Delight	2,089,078	$6.27	2	2	0	1,044,539	$3.1336	5.9m
The Great Escapi	2,016,141	$6.05	2	2	0	1,008,070	$3.0242	10.0m
Q	1,984,014	$5.95	2	1	1	992,007	$2.9760	8.0m
CI Failure Doctor	1,860,833	$5.58	2	2	0	930,416	$2.7912	11.9m
Daily Secrets Analysis Agent	1,806,579	$5.42	2	2	0	903,290	$2.7099	4.8m
Auto-Triage Issues	1,804,807	$5.41	23	22	1	78,470	$0.2354	3.0m
Agent Performance Analyzer - Meta-Orchestrator	1,571,743	$4.72	2	2	0	785,872	$2.3576	10.0m
Daily Compiler Quality Check	1,512,054	$4.54	2	2	0	756,027	$2.2681	7.2m
Daily Malicious Code Scan Agent	1,446,378	$4.34	2	2	0	723,189	$2.1696	4.1m
Daily CLI Performance Agent	1,367,336	$4.10	2	2	0	683,668	$2.0510	4.2m
jsweep - JavaScript Unbloater	1,343,146	$4.03	1	1	0	1,343,146	$4.0294	6.9m
Example: Custom Error Patterns	1,263,061	$3.79	1	1	0	1,263,061	$3.7892	4.4m
Dev	1,142,276	$3.43	2	2	0	571,138	$1.7134	2.5m
Terminal Stylist	1,141,107	$3.42	2	2	0	570,554	$1.7117	6.5m
Sub-Issue Closer	1,111,939	$3.34	2	2	0	555,970	$1.6679	4.4m
Slide Deck Maintainer	996,294	$2.99	1	1	0	996,294	$2.9889	8.8m
Glossary Maintainer	914,328	$2.74	2	2	0	457,164	$1.3715	4.8m
Copilot CLI Deep Research Agent	794,624	$2.38	1	1	0	794,624	$2.3839	8.7m
Daily Testify Uber Super Expert	697,924	$2.09	1	1	0	697,924	$2.0938	5.7m
Daily Copilot Token Consumption Report	663,754	$1.99	1	1	0	663,754	$1.9913	18.1m
The Daily Repository Chronicle	649,596	$1.95	1	1	0	649,596	$1.9488	7.7m
Workflow Normalizer	645,314	$1.94	1	1	0	645,314	$1.9359	8.1m
CI Optimization Coach	639,806	$1.92	1	1	0	639,806	$1.9194	10.4m
Dictation Prompt Generator	633,581	$1.90	1	1	0	633,581	$1.9007	5.6m
Copilot PR Prompt Pattern Analysis	533,325	$1.60	1	1	0	533,325	$1.6000	6.8m
Daily File Diet	486,929	$1.46	1	1	0	486,929	$1.4608	5.1m
Auto-Assign Issue	484,193	$1.45	2	2	0	242,096	$0.7263	3.2m
Discussion Task Miner - Code Quality Improvement Agent	441,048	$1.32	1	1	0	441,048	$1.3231	5.7m
Resource Summarizer Agent	398,483	$1.20	2	2	0	199,242	$0.5977	4.2m
Daily Team Status	322,647	$0.97	2	2	0	161,324	$0.4840	3.5m
Daily Firewall Logs Collector and Reporter	254,511	$0.76	1	1	0	254,511	$0.7635	5.2m
Repository Quality Improvement Agent	240,631	$0.72	1	1	0	240,631	$0.7219	8.0m
Dependabot Dependency Checker	205,014	$0.62	1	1	0	205,014	$0.6150	3.0m
AI Moderator	180,074	$0.54	5	5	0	36,015	$0.1080	2.4m
Daily Copilot PR Merged Report	107,395	$0.32	1	1	0	107,395	$0.3222	3.0m
Plan Command	98,545	$0.30	1	1	0	98,545	$0.2956	3.5m
Daily Regulatory Report Generator	69,427	$0.21	1	1	0	69,427	$0.2083	1.9m
Dependabot Bundler	57,726	$0.17	1	1	0	57,726	$0.1732	2.9m
GitHub Remote MCP Authentication Test	31,940	$0.10	1	1	0	31,940	$0.0958	2.5m

🎯 Immediate Action Items

Priority 1 (High Impact):

1. Optimize CI Cleaner: Implement caching and incremental analysis to reduce 7M tokens/run → Target: <3M tokens/run (Potential savings: ~$30/month)
2. Optimize Agent Persona Explorer: Cache persona definitions and reduce exploration iterations → Target: <4M tokens/run (Potential savings: ~$28/month)
3. Fix Issue Monster failures: Investigate 77% failure rate to eliminate wasted token consumption on failed runs (Currently wasting ~$13/month on failures)

Priority 2 (Quick Wins):
4. Implement incremental checking in CLI Consistency Checker: Reduce from 2.7M tokens to <500K tokens per run
5. Study efficient workflows: Document patterns from Auto-Triage Issues ($0.24/run) and AI Moderator ($0.11/run) for replication

Priority 3 (Monitoring):
6. Track trends: Continue daily reporting to identify cost trends and efficiency regressions
7. Set cost alerts: Alert when any workflow exceeds $10/run or shows >20% week-over-week increase

🔧 Methodology

• Data Source: GitHub Actions workflow run logs from last 30 days
• Engine Filter: Copilot engine only
• Token Pricing: $0.000003 per token ($3 per 1M tokens)
• Analysis Date: 2026-01-23 11:17:50 UTC
• Memory Storage: /tmp/gh-aw/repo-memory/default/history.jsonl
• Total Workflows Analyzed: 52 unique workflows across 211 runs

📈 Historical Tracking

This report marks the first day of persistent token tracking. Historical data is being stored in repo memory for future trend analysis. Future reports will include:

• Week-over-week and month-over-month comparisons
• Token usage trend charts
• Cost efficiency trends over time
• Workflow optimization impact measurements

References:

• §21283953892 - Current workflow run

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• expires on Jan 26, 2026, 11:20 AM UTC

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