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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"MCP server extension running up API requests  and hitting user rate limits","articleBody":"\n# **Warning - This is a public repository, please be mindful of sharing sensitive data**\n## Why are you seeing this issue?\nThis is a [support escalation](https://github.com/github/support/blob/main/ticket-processes/escalating-outside-support.md#escalating-to-engineering-and-product-teams)! You can find out more about expectations on communications and response times in the [on-call docs](https://thehub.github.com/epd/engineering/incident-response/support-to-engineering-escalation-process/#support-escalation-response-procedures-and-best-practices). Thank you for doing your part to keep GitHub customers happy!\n\n## Severity\n_Note, for Sev1 issues always page the team first, using the PagerDuty information in the [service catalog](https://catalog.githubapp.com/services) and the command `.pager trigger \u003crotation\u003e \u003creason\u003e`. Opening an issue for a Sev2 incident can come later (and can be done by the available Escalation Engineer)._\n\n- [ ] sev1 - **Engineering must _respond_, when paged, within their on-call SLO**\n- [ ] sev2 - **Engineering must _respond_ to this issue within one business day**\n- [x] sev3 - **Engineering must _respond_ to this issue within one week**\n\n## Service\n[github-mcp-server](https://catalog.githubapp.com/services?service=github-mcp-server)\n\n## Context\n_:warning: Kindly provide all the requested information to ensure a prompt and efficient response. :warning:_\n\n**GitHub Support Plan**\n\n- [ ] Top 20\n- [ ] Premium Plus\n- [ ] Premium\n- [X] Enterprise\n- [ ] Free/Pro/Team\n\n**GitHub Product(s) Impacted (check appropriate boxes and provide GHES version if applicable)**\n\n- [X] GitHub.com (including GHEC)\n- [ ] GitHub Enterprise Server.\n  - [ ] Running version: x.y.z\n  - [ ] Recently upgraded from version: x.y.z (upgrade date: yyyy-mm-dd)\n- [ ] Proxima (ghe.com)\n  - [ ] Customer tenant: -\n\n**Customer Impact**\n\nIf applicable, list the impacted entities:\n- [ ] Enterprise: -\n- [ ] Organization: -\n- [ ] Repository: -\n- [X] User: -https://admin.github.com/stafftools/users/Lysander086/copilot_settings\n\n**Zendesk Ticket(s), support bundles, and other relevant Issues and links**\n- [ZD_3600473_](https://github.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/3600473)\n\n## Issue\n\nWe have a client:\n\nhttps://admin.github.com/stafftools/users/Lysander086/copilot_settings\n\nwho was getting api rate limits broken constantly and after working with them they see that the MCP extension for VSCode was consuming a lot of tokens for this user.\n\nThe errors they received:\n\n\u003cimg width=\"477\" height=\"218\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9941e2c4-c95e-457c-9e7a-17e5ed31892e\" /\u003e\n\n\nRunning gh api second to second for this user produced:\n\n```\nlysander@MPro ~ % gh api rate_limit\n{\n  \"resources\": {\n    \"core\": {\n      \"limit\": 5000,\n      \"used\": 2995,\n      \"remaining\": 2005,\n      \"reset\": 1755497482\n    },\n```\n\n```\nlysander@MPro ~ % gh api rate_limit\n{\n  \"resources\": {\n    \"core\": {\n      \"limit\": 5000,\n      \"used\": 3050,\n      \"remaining\": 1950,\n      \"reset\": 1755497482\n    },\n```\n\n```\nlysander@MPro ~ % gh api rate_limit\n{\n  \"resources\": {\n    \"core\": {\n      \"limit\": 5000,\n      \"used\": 4192,\n      \"remaining\": 808,\n      \"reset\": 1755497482\n    },\n```\n\nThe client wanted to know why the MCP server was draining all of the resources for his api rate limits, i have asked them to provide me more info on this end, but i wanted to see if there was an issue with over-consumptive api resources.\n\n**To Reproduce**\n\nSteps to reproduce the behavior:\n1. Go to '...'\n2. Click on '....'\n3. Scroll down to '....'\n4. See error\n\n**Expected behavior**\n\nA clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.\n\n**Screenshots**\n\nIf applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem.\n\n**Additional context**\n\nAdd any other context about the problem here.\n\ncc:\n@github/copilot-agentservices-team-eng\n@toby\n\n**Support Squad(s)**: @github/support-squad-worktent ","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dim-vin","@type":"Person","name":"dim-vin"},"datePublished":"2025-08-20T19:34:01.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/933/github-mcp-server/issues/933"}