AI credits are the new lines of code metric

GitHub added a tiny field to the Copilot usage metrics API this week that is going to create a lot of very confident spreadsheets.

Enterprise and organization admins can now see ai_credits_used in the user-level Copilot usage reports. One field. Per user. Available for single-day and 28-day reports. It is not the invoice, and GitHub is careful to say it is a consumption signal rather than a billed total.

Still, the shape is obvious.

Now AI usage can sit next to adoption, activity, team, department, cost center, and whatever else the company already exports into a dashboard.

That is useful.