Copilot Sessions Need a "per interaction" Budget

[mitchelsellers]

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Product Feedback

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Copilot in GitHub

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I've logged this as Copilot in GitHub, but I would say that this is a feature that spans all of the areas.

As a user of GitHub Copilot, I want the ability to limit/control my costs when sending off an Agentic interaction. For example, when I assign a GitHub issue to Copilot, I want to be able to set a max-budget for that iteration, say $5.00. If that interaction continues and ends up hitting a limit, it should stop execution immediately and notify me. I can elect to expand the budget, knowing that it MAY need to re-do some of the prior work, as the context was lost.

The benefit of this is that I will be able to control/limit any situations where I may blow through my budget before I wanted to.

In an ideal world, I'd have even more restrictions

• Org/Enterprise Level - max per session costs limits
• User Profile - default max per session costs - so I don't forget
• Repository Level - Similar configurations for things such as Code Review or other things that are "automatic" into the respository with limited context

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[TheStorkClub]

get in the comments https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/197524

[bocytko]

Pydantic AI has UsageLimits, so it's only fair to pass a similar limit on to Github Copilot users, now that all Copilot features incl. reviews are billed per token.

[TroyCoderBoy]

This takes me back to the early days of the Internet where you had to manage every byte of data you downloaded through fear of your next bill.