Your agents just went on a meter: the Claude Agent SDK credit and how to not get wrecked

On June 15 Anthropic stops subsidizing programmatic Claude. Your Agent SDK, claude -p, GitHub Actions, and third-party agents move onto a separate dollar credit metered at full API rates. Here's exactly what changes, the math on what your credit actually buys, and the cost-engineering that keeps an agent stack economical once someone's finally counting the tokens.