GitHub Copilot Impact Dashboard Adds Chat and VS Code Agent Usage Tracking

At a glance

GitHub Copilot's impact dashboard now includes Copilot Chat and the VS Code agent window in its agent adoption chart. Users can now see at a glance how much each of Copilot's nine features is used. The former 'manual users' group has been renamed 'chat-focused users.'

Key points

1. 1

   Copilot Chat and the VS Code agent window have been added to the agent adoption chart, bringing the total number of features to nine.

2. 2

   The name 'manual users' has been changed to 'chat-focused users.' It refers to users who did not use any eligible feature for more than two days in 28 days.

3. 3

   Chat and the agent window are counted only as feature usage and are not included in the adoption stage calculation.

4. 4

   This change applies only to the 28-day usage reports for enterprises and organizations, and reports from before the change show only the original seven features.

Why it matters

Chat, which is widely used, was missing from the dashboard, and people who mainly used chat were wrongly classified as manual users. This change gives a more accurate picture of how developers use Copilot.