GitHub Copilot

Connect GitHub Copilot to bring your AI coding spend into Cloud & AI Cost Management alongside your cloud costs.

Connecting GitHub Copilot brings your GitHub Copilot spend into Harness Cloud & AI Cost Management alongside your cloud costs. The connector uses an Admin key with read-only access to pull usage and cost data from your GitHub Copilot account. You can analyze AI spend in Cost Explorer, attribute it with Views and Cost Categories, and govern it with budgets and anomaly detection, the same way you manage cloud costs.

Before You Begin

GitHub Copilot Admin key: An Admin key with read-only access from your GitHub organization. The key enables Harness to ingest billing and usage data. Go to the GitHub Copilot metrics API documentation to review the required scopes.

Create the GitHub Copilot Admin Key

Harness retrieves Copilot usage and billing data through a GitHub personal access token (classic).

1. In GitHub, go to Settings > Developer settings > Personal access tokens > Tokens (classic), or open github.com/settings/tokens directly.

2. Click Generate new token > Generate new token (classic), then provide a descriptive name, for example, Harness CCM Integration.

3. Set the Expiration to No expiration (or the longest available option) so ingestion does not stop when the token expires.

4. Select the scope that matches your account type:

   • Organization: read:org

   • Enterprise: manage_billing:copilot or read:enterprise

5. Click Generate token, then copy it and store it securely. GitHub does not display the token again after creation.

You must be an organization or enterprise owner or billing manager (or hold the fine-grained View Copilot Metrics permission), and the Copilot usage metrics policy must be enabled for the account before the metrics endpoints return data.

Set Up the GitHub Copilot Connector

To connect GitHub Copilot, go to Cloud & AI Cost Management > Account Settings > AI Providers, click AI Provider, and then select GitHub Copilot.

Step 1: Name the Connector

1. On the Overview panel, enter a Name for the connector.

2. Optionally, add a Description and Tags to organize and filter connectors.

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1. Click Continue.

Step 2: Add the API Key

On the Connector Details panel, provide the GitHub Copilot Admin key you created in Create the GitHub Copilot Admin Key as a Harness secret. Do the following:

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1. In the API Key field, click Create or Select a Secret.

   • To use an existing secret that contains your GitHub Copilot Admin key, select it from the list, then click Apply Selected.

   • To add a new secret, click New Secret Text, enter a Secret Name, and provide the GitHub Copilot Admin key you created as the Secret Value.

     

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     Go to Add and reference text secrets to review all secret creation options.

2. Click Continue.

Step 3: Verify the Connection

On the Connection Test panel, Harness validates the API key against your GitHub Copilot account. Once the verification is successful, click Finish to create the connector.

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