VS Code Daily Usage Summary

Summary

This prompt generates a comprehensive daily usage summary of your VS Code activity. It analyzes metrics such as lines of code written, new files added, files changed, and total time spent in VS Code. This helps developers track their productivity, assist PR reviewers with context, and provide insights for individual developer summaries.

Prompt💡

Analyze my VS Code activity for today and provide a summary including:

• Total lines of code written
• Number of new files created
• Number of files modified
• Total duration spent in VS Code
• Most active language/file type
• commits made (if available) Format this as a professional summary suitable for PR reviewers and performance evaluations.

Descriptionℹ️

This prompt helps generate daily VS Code usage statistics for productivity tracking and developer performance insights. It can be later integrated with Android Studio, Eclipse, SSMS, VS Professional and other IDEs in the future to get consolidated report summaries.

Contributors 👨‍💻

Pranam Bhat

Version history

Version	Date	Comments
1.0	Feb 8, 2026	Initial release

Instructions 📝

1. Make sure you have GitHub Copilot extension installed in VSCode and enable it
2. Launch GitHub Copilot Chat using Cmd+I (Mac) or Ctrl+I (Windows)
3. Copy the above prompt, paste, and press Enter
4. Allow scripts if safe to run to see the output

Prerequisites

• GitHub Copilot

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Disclaimer

THIS CODE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

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