copilot-status-mcp

Check your GitHub Copilot quota and rate-limit status from Claude Code, Copilot, or any MCP client.

copilot-status-mcp solves a visibility problem: when Copilot blocks your request with "You've hit your rate limit", you know you're blocked — but not for how long, how close you were before it happened, or what your monthly quota looks like. This package exposes all of that as a CLI command and MCP tool.

claude mcp add --scope user copilot-status-mcp -- npx -y copilot-status-mcp --mcp

Features

• Detects active rate limits and shows the exact reset time (5-hour session and weekly windows).
• Shows window usage percentage when available (server sends it above 50% used).
• Reports monthly quota for chat, completions, and premium model interactions.
• Works for free and paid Copilot plans.
• --pretty flag for a readable terminal summary.
• Exposes a single MCP tool: get_copilot_status.
• Does not read, store, log, or print your Copilot access token.

Quick Start

Print your current Copilot status in the terminal:

npx copilot-status-mcp

Pretty-print for humans:

npx copilot-status-mcp --pretty

Add to Claude Code:

claude mcp add --scope user copilot-status-mcp -- npx -y copilot-status-mcp --mcp

Then ask:

What is my current Copilot quota?
Am I rate limited on Copilot right now?

Requirements

• Node.js 18 or newer.
• One of the following for full support (session + weekly rate limits):
  • JetBrains Copilot plugin installed and authenticated
  • GitHub Copilot CLI: npm install -g @github/copilot && copilot auth login
  • GITHUB_COPILOT_TOKEN env var set to a Copilot-issued OAuth token
• For monthly quota only: gh CLI authenticated, or GITHUB_TOKEN env var set.

CLI Usage

Default — JSON output

npx copilot-status-mcp

Example output:

{
  "source": "copilot-status-mcp",
  "tokenSource": "apps.json",
  "account": {
    "plan": "individual",
    "sku": "yearly_subscriber_quota"
  },
  "shortTermRateLimit": {
    "rateLimited": false,
    "session": {
      "percentUsed": 64.7,
      "percentRemaining": 35.3,
      "entitlement": 0,
      "resetsAt": "2026-06-01T16:29:39.000Z"
    },
    "weekly": {
      "percentUsed": 55.1,
      "percentRemaining": 44.9,
      "entitlement": 0,
      "resetsAt": "2026-06-08T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    "probeAvailable": true
  },
  "monthlyQuota": {
    "resetsAt": "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z",
    "chat": { "unlimited": true, "percentRemaining": 100 },
    "completions": { "unlimited": true, "percentRemaining": 100 },
    "premiumInteractions": { "remaining": 299, "entitlement": 300, "percentRemaining": 99.6 }
  }
}

When rate limited:

{
  "shortTermRateLimit": {
    "rateLimited": true,
    "sessionResetsAt": "2026-06-08T00:00:00.000Z",
    "sessionRetryAfterSecs": 310852,
    "limitKey": "global-usage-weekly-key",
    "probeAvailable": true
  }
}

Pretty output

npx copilot-status-mcp --pretty

━━━ Account ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Plan:         individual
  SKU:          yearly_subscriber_quota
  Token source: apps.json

━━━ Short-Term Rate Limit ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ✅  Not rate limited
  5h session:        64.7% used  [█████████████░░░░░░░]  35.3% remaining
  Session resets at: 2026-06-01T16:29:39.000Z (in 2h 40m)
  Weekly:            55.1% used  [███████████░░░░░░░░░]  44.9% remaining
  Weekly resets at:  2026-06-08T00:00:00.000Z (in 154h 11m)

━━━ Monthly Quota ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Chat:               unlimited  (100.0% remaining)
  Completions:        unlimited  (100.0% remaining)
  Premium models:     299 / 300  (99.6% remaining)
  Monthly resets at:  2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z
  Monthly resets in:  706h 11m

All flags

npx copilot-status-mcp [options]

Options:
  --pretty               Human-readable summary instead of JSON.
  --include-login        Include GitHub login in output.
  --timeout-ms <ms>      Timeout for API requests (default: 15000).
  --mcp                  Run as an MCP stdio server.
  --help, -h             Show help.

MCP Setup

The MCP server exposes one tool: get_copilot_status.

It returns the same JSON as the CLI. Optional arguments:

{
  "timeoutMs": 15000,
  "includeLogin": false
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add --scope user copilot-status-mcp -- npx -y copilot-status-mcp --mcp

Verify:

claude mcp list
claude mcp get copilot-status-mcp

Equivalent MCP JSON:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "copilot-status-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "copilot-status-mcp", "--mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Other MCP Clients

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "copilot-status-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "copilot-status-mcp", "--mcp"]
    }
  }
}

How It Works

Token resolution

Short-term rate limit probe requires a Copilot-specific OAuth token:

GITHUB_COPILOT_TOKEN env var
  └─ ~/.config/github-copilot/apps.json  (written by JetBrains / Copilot CLI)

Monthly quota works with any GitHub token:

GITHUB_COPILOT_TOKEN env var
  └─ ~/.config/github-copilot/apps.json
       └─ GITHUB_TOKEN env var
            └─ `gh auth token`

What gets called

GET https://api.github.com/copilot_internal/v2/token
  → exchange OAuth token for a short-lived CAPI session token

POST https://api.individual.githubcopilot.com/chat/completions
  max_tokens=1, model=gpt-5-mini
  → 200: not rate limited; response headers carry window usage %
  → 429: rate limited; retry-after header carries seconds until reset

GET https://api.github.com/copilot_internal/user
  → monthly quota snapshots and reset date

Rate limit windows

GitHub Copilot enforces two rolling windows on top of the monthly quota:

Window	Key	Resets
Session	global-usage-5-hour-key	Rolling 5 hours
Weekly	global-usage-weekly-key	Every Monday 00:00 UTC

Window usage percentage is only returned by the server above the 50% threshold. Below 50%, the response only confirms you are not rate limited.

Local Checkout Setup

npm install
npm run build
node dist/cli.js
node dist/cli.js --pretty
node dist/cli.js --mcp

From TypeScript directly:

npx tsx src/cli.ts
npx tsx src/cli.ts --pretty

Claude Code from local checkout

claude mcp add --scope user copilot-status-mcp -- node /absolute/path/to/copilot-status-mcp/dist/cli.js --mcp

Development

npm install          # install dependencies
npm run status       # print status from TypeScript
npm run status:pretty  # pretty output from TypeScript
npm run dev          # run MCP server from TypeScript
npm run build        # compile to dist/
npm run typecheck    # type-check without emitting
npm pack --dry-run   # preview npm package contents

Troubleshooting

No short-term rate limit data

The tool falls back to monthly-quota-only mode when no Copilot OAuth token is found. Install one of:

• JetBrains Copilot plugin (authenticates automatically)
• Copilot CLI: npm install -g @github/copilot && copilot auth login
• Set GITHUB_COPILOT_TOKEN manually

probeAvailable: false in output

Same as above — no Copilot session token was available for the CAPI probe.

MCP tool does not show up

Restart Claude Code or your MCP client after adding the server.

Timeout errors

Increase the timeout:

{ "timeoutMs": 30000 }

Security Notes

• OAuth tokens are read from environment variables or local config files and are never printed, logged, or stored beyond the lifetime of the request.
• The CAPI probe uses a single minimal chat request (max_tokens: 1) solely to read response headers. The response content is discarded.
• GitHub login is omitted from output by default; use --include-login only when needed.

License

MIT

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Made with ❤️ by Dmytro Vakulenko, 2026