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Slope chart thumbnail showing Copilot Business credits dropping from 3,000 to 1,900 and Enterprise credits dropping from 7,000 to 3,900 when the promotional period ends September 1, 2026. Enterprise drops 44 percent, the largest decline.

Copilot credit costs still sting developers two months in

Copilot credit costs keep burning budgets. Two months after GitHub's token-based billing switch, credits vanish fast and promo allowances end September 1.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 8, 2026

Radar chart showing the scope of Agent Plugins 1.0 across six dimensions. Four dimensions at full coverage: packaging, agent skills, MCP servers, and client extensions. Two dimensions at zero coverage: security model and distribution. The spec covers four areas and defers two.

Engineering

Agent Plugins 1.0 unifies agent skills across five clients

Agent Plugins 1.0 is an open package format for portable AI agent skills and MCP servers. Five clients support it at launch, with no install or permission model.

Lars Cornelissen · Aug 7, 2026

Copilot spend meter plan chart showing individual Copilot AI credit allowances: Pro 1,500, Pro+ 7,000, and Max 20,000.

Engineering

Copilot spend meter shows where AI coding costs bite

Copilot spend meter is VS Code's new warning for AI credit overruns. Treat the 1,500 Pro credits as a budget, not a perk.

Lars Cornelissen · Jun 23, 2026

VS Code Autopilot default risk shown through 2025 developer environment usage: Visual Studio Code at 75.9 percent, Visual Studio at 29 percent, Notepad++ at 27.4 percent, IntelliJ IDEA at 27.1 percent, and Vim at 24.3 percent.

AI

VS Code Autopilot puts agent risk in every default

VS Code Autopilot is now enabled by default, giving coding agents more autonomy. Treat the new default as a policy change, not a shortcut.

Lars Cornelissen · Jun 12, 2026