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What is the difference between AI Code Insights and connectors?

AI Code Insights and DX connectors provide complementary data. Most organizations use both.

AI Code Insights (daemon)

The daemon runs on the machines where code is written and provides:

  • Commit attribution: The share of eligible captured code changes attributed to supported coding agents, broken down by team, repository, agent, and other report filters.
  • Session metadata: Tool, model, timestamps, and token counts when the agent integration provides them.
  • Optional transcript analysis: Supported integrations can send scrubbed message text to the ingestion endpoint. Transcripts & Agent Experience controls downstream storage and evaluation.
  • Agent Experience: A post-session evaluation of requirements, steering, and scope when transcripts and scoring are enabled.

The data is limited by endpoint, repository, tool, file, identity, and installation-date coverage. See AI Code Insights for the supported-agent matrix and limitations.

Connectors

Connectors pull organization-level data from provider APIs. Available fields depend on the provider and can include:

  • Adoption rates: How many developers are actively using each agent.
  • Usage bands: Distribution of usage across the organization.
  • Token consumption: Provider-reported input, output, and cache token counts where available.
  • Billing data: Spend and cost data from the provider.

Connector data does not require the daemon. Configure it under Admin → Connections.

How the data fits together

AI effectiveness uses provider connectors for adoption and to identify AI users, source control data for PR velocity and bug-fix allocation, and AI Code Insights for Agent Experience and session analysis. Missing one source can make a section unavailable without invalidating the other sources.

Use connectors to understand licensed or active provider usage and spend. Use AI Code Insights to understand captured code attribution and eligible agent sessions. For setup, see Data connectors and AI Code Insights installation.