Show per-subagent AI credit usage breakdown in /usage
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Description
### Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve
Copilot CLI displays cumulative AI-credit usage for the session, including 4 usage by the main agent, subagents, and background operations. However, it 5 does not show how those credits are distributed among individual agent 6 invocations. 7 8 This makes it difficult to identify expensive agents, compare custom-agent 9 models, and optimize multi-agent workflows.
### Proposed solution
Extend `/usage` with an optional itemized breakdown showing:
- Main-agent usage
- Each subagent invocation
- Custom-agent name
- Model used
- AI credits consumed
- Background operations such as context compaction
- Total session usage
### Example prompts or workflows
### Use case
When a parent agent delegates investigation, implementation, review, and
testing to several subagents, users need to understand which invocation or
configured model accounts for most of the session cost.
### Example
```
Main agent 4.20 AIC
Explore #1 — architecture 1.15 AIC
ios-implementer #1 7.80 AIC
Task #1 — tests 0.65 AIC
Context compaction 0.30 AIC
--------------------------------------------
Session total 14.10 AIC
```
Possible commands:
`/usage`
`/usage --by-agent`
`/usage --detailed`
### Additional context
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the /usage command and the existing session credit accounting described in the issue. Trace how main-agent, subagent, custom-agent, model, and background-operation usage are recorded, then define the displayed breakdown and totals for the proposed command forms. Done means /usage can show per-invocation details while preserving the cumulative session total.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100