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Budgets, tokens, and secrets
GH-700 · Lesson 1 of 15 · 3:58
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In this lesson
Lesson 1 of the free GH-700 series (domain 1): budget guardrails for AI credits (universal user-level budgets, individual overrides, spending limits, stop usage when budget limit is reached, alerts at 75, 90, and 100 percent), token usage and the context window, organizational standards and policies, secrets management with repository and Agents secrets, secret scanning and push protection, and governance, privacy, usage, and risk controls (content exclusion, session syncing, the audit log, AI controls, prompt injection). With three quick checks and a recap.
Preview the topics
- Contoso’s admin set a spending limit, but usage kept growing after the limit was reached. What did the admin forget?
- A product manager wants a nightly automation to call a ticketing service that needs an API key. Where should the key go?
- Contoso’s legal team wants Copilot never to use the files in its contracts folder, in suggestions, answers, or code reviews. What should the admin configure?