Whatidid Agent Skill

Generate a branded HTML impact report showing what GitHub Copilot helped you accomplish — goals delivered, human effort equivalent, skills augmented, collaboration patterns, and estimation evidence grounded in peer-reviewed research. Works with any Copilot CLI or VS Code agent session.

317k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

ships runnable scripts

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/What-I-Did-Copilot --skill whatidid

The instruction itself

6 sections, as written by the author

What I Did (Copilot) — Impact Report Generator

Generate a professional impact report from your GitHub Copilot session logs. Shows what you accomplished, quantifies the human-equivalent effort, and presents it in a branded HTML report you can share with your manager or team.

What It Does

Harvests session data from ~/.copilot/session-state/ (local, private)
Analyses each day's work using an AI prompt calibrated against peer-reviewed research
Generates a self-contained HTML report with:
Goals accomplished with task-level detail
Human effort equivalent (research-grounded estimation)
Skills augmented and collaboration patterns
Estimation evidence with transparent methodology
Emails the report via Outlook (optional)

Quick Start

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/What-I-Did-Copilot.git
cd What-I-Did-Copilot

# Generate a 7-day report
python whatidid.py --date 7D

# Generate and email a 30-day report
python whatidid.py --date 30D --email

Requirements

Python 3.10+
GitHub CLI (gh auth login) for AI analysis
Active Copilot CLI or VS Code agent sessions

Privacy

Your data stays on your machine. No telemetry, no cloud uploads. The AI analysis uses your own GitHub Models API token. No one has access to your report unless you share it.

Research Basis

Effort estimates are grounded in 13 peer-reviewed sources including Alaswad et al. 2026, Cambon et al. 2023 (Microsoft Research), and the SPACE framework. See full methodology.

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take microsoft/what-i-did-copilot-whatidid from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.