Tip: Cap or Route Copilot Spend Through a Provider Layer to Avoid Metered-Billing Surprises

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With Copilot now metered per request, set hard usage caps and consider routing heavy agentic work through OpenRouter, RooCode, LM Studio, or direct API keys to keep cost predictable. Reserve the most expensive model tiers for genuinely hard tasks and downshift routine edits to cheaper models. A BYOK abstraction (e.g., manifest) makes this swap reversible without rewiring your harness.