Copilot premium requests leaking even when idle

[esdhrglNew10]

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Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Copilot in GitHub

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For last 2 days, I have been noticing increase in premium request usage in my github account despite none usage from VS code. Primarily i use VS code for my work. Leak is in line with the model last chosen in the VS code. Thankfully i also dont see option to choose 0 cost models to select.
I have copilot pro+ subscription and tried closing VS code, restarting PC. Nothing helps. Filed ticket with Github support 2 days back and no response so far.

Does anyone else see similar issue? Or have any recommendations to try out?

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[Gecko51]

Seen a few reports like this. A couple of things worth checking before blaming a platform bug:

Do you have any MCP servers configured in Copilot? If so, some of them run background processes that keep making API calls even when VS Code is closed. Check your settings for github.copilot.chat.mcp.discovery.enabled and look under mcpServers in your VS Code config. Disabling or stopping those would be the first thing to try.

Also worth checking: any GitHub Apps, CI integrations, or browser extensions connected to your account that might be using Copilot under the hood? Those consume from the same quota.

If you have access to the usage breakdown in GitHub Settings > Billing > Usage, look at the timestamps on the premium requests. If they follow a pattern (every X minutes, or tied to something running in the background), that'll narrow it down fast.

If the requests genuinely show up with VS Code fully closed and nothing else running, keep the support ticket alive and include those timestamps. The correlation with the last model you had selected is unusual enough that it could be a backend issue.

What model were you on when it started, and do the usage logs show a specific feature or tool type?