A lightweight VSCode extension that lets you easily track your GitHub Copilot premium requests. It adds a convenient, distraction-free indicator directly to your status bar, so you can monitor your monthly quota and daily usage at a glance without interrupting your workflow.

Standard percentage metrics (e.g., "Used 37%") lack daily context. They do not tell you whether you are burning through your budget too fast today or whether you have saved up a comfortable buffer.

Pacer solves this with a three-zone visual that shows both where you stand this month and how much you have used today specifically.

The today's lens (┃…┃) tracks intra-day consumption: it resets at UTC midnight and fills as you send requests during the day. The denominator is an adaptive daily budget (remainingRequests / remainingDays at the start of each UTC day) so the 100 % reference automatically adjusts for requests borrowed or saved in previous days. Once you have used that many requests today, the lens is full and the future zone begins to fill.

• Visual Pacing Bar: The status bar indicator (e.g., ▰▰┃▮▮▯▯▯┃▱▱▱) is dynamically split into three clear zones:

  • Past (▰▰): Requests you have already spent.
  • Today's Lens (┃▮▮▯▯▯┃): Intra-day consumption since UTC midnight, as a fraction of the adaptive daily budget (v4.x) (remainingRequests / remainingDays at day start, adjusts for over/under-spending in previous days). Resets automatically at each UTC midnight. The count reflects your entire account: requests made on any machine using the same GitHub token are included. Both the baseline and the adaptive quota are shared across machines via VS Code Settings Sync.
  • Future (▱▱▱): The remaining quota for the rest of the month.

• Paid Premium Tracking: (v3.x) Once you exceed your included quota, GitHub charges $0.04 per additional premium request. The lens automatically switches to show your real-time spending (e.g., ▰▰▰▰┃$5.14┃▰▰▰▰), so you always know exactly how much you have spent this month.

  

• Smart Tooltip: Hover over the status bar to see the exact numbers: total monthly usage (X / 1500), today's intra-day count vs adaptive daily budget (Today: X / 131), and remaining requests for today.

• Zero Setup: Works automatically with your GitHub account, no tokens or configuration needed.

• Set and Forget: The indicator automatically refreshes in the background. Click on the status bar to refresh it manually anytime.

The today's lens needs two pieces of local state that the GitHub API cannot provide directly. Both are stored in VS Code's globalState and registered for VS Code Settings Sync, so they are automatically shared across all your machines when Settings Sync is active.

Together these two settings hold exactly the same information as a single (date, baseline, lastSeen, quota) tuple: they are split only for code clarity.

On first activation (no settings exist yet), the extension bootstraps both settings from the current API reading: todayUsed = 0 and the adaptive quota is computed as (monthlyLimit − currentUsed) / remainingDays. Requests sent today before the extension was first activated are not counted in todayUsed for that day: this is a one-time limitation that self-corrects at the next UTC midnight rollover.

Both settings reflect your entire account's cumulative request count (the GitHub API reports all machines combined). When Settings Sync propagates these values, every VS Code instance on every machine uses the same baseline and the same quota, so the today lens shows the same Today: X / Y reading everywhere.

Without Settings Sync each machine maintains its own baseline and recomputes its own quota at UTC midnight independently. The lens still works locally but may differ across machines until the next sync cycle.

To enable Settings Sync: Ctrl+Shift+P → Settings Sync: Turn On → sign in with the same GitHub (or Microsoft) account you use for Copilot.

MIT