Microsoft's June 9 Visual Studio 2026 update shipped three features addressing a structural problem created by the June 1 GitHub Copilot billing transition, where the IDE had become the only place in a developer's workflow where the cost of an AI action was invisible. The most significant addition is a refreshed Copilot Usage window that tracks AI Credit consumption in real time and alerts developers before they burn through their monthly budget. When GitHub switched all Copilot plans to token-based billing on June 1, developers running agentic coding sessions could exhaust a Pro plan's entire $15 monthly credit allotment in a single session, with developers reporting projected monthly costs jumping from $29 to over $750 for heavy agentic use. The June 9 update is Microsoft's first IDE-side response to that backlash, closing the information gap that made the model feel like a trap. Under token billing, the same Copilot badge can trigger either a free inline code completion or a multi-model agentic session costing $30 to $40 in AI Credits, with no in-IDE indication before the update.