Question

You are an enterprise admin for a company with a GitHub Copilot Business subscription. Finance asks you to build an automated nightly job that identifies Copilot seats that have not been used in the last 30 days so the licenses can be reclaimed. You want to pull this data programmatically without logging into the web UI. Which approach correctly retrieves the necessary information?

Accepted Answer

Call the 'GET /orgs/{org}/copilot/billing/seats' REST API endpoint and inspect the 'last_activity_at' field for each returned seat assignment.

Answer

Query the audit log streaming endpoint and filter for 'copilot.inline_suggestion' events, since seat usage is only recorded there.

Answer

Use the 'GET /orgs/{org}/members' endpoint and read the 'copilot_last_used' property returned for each member.

Answer

Run 'gh copilot usage --org {org} --inactive 30' from the Copilot CLI, which is the only supported way to enumerate stale seats.