Describe the bug

When a session delegates work to subagents (the task tool / custom agents), the OTel spans for those subagent model calls omit all billing attributes. The subagent calls consume real AI credits (per the cumulative session display — see #4207, which notes session usage "including usage by the main agent, subagents, and background operations"), but that consumption is invisible to OpenTelemetry, so any external cost accounting built on the documented OTel telemetry (copilot help monitoring) systematically undercounts actual billing.

Main-agent chat spans carry the full billing envelope:

• github.copilot.nano_aiu
• github.copilot.cost
• github.copilot.initiator (user / agent)
• github.copilot.interaction_id / github.copilot.turn_id

Subagent model calls emit spans with correct gen_ai.* semconv attributes (gen_ai.operation.name, gen_ai.request.model, gen_ai.usage.input_tokens / output_tokens / cache_read.input_tokens / cache_creation.input_tokens) but carry none of the github.copilot.* billing attributes — no nano_aiu, no cost, not even initiator or an interaction id. This holds at every level:

1. The subagent's child chat spans: no billing attributes.
2. The subagent's own nested invoke_agent span (which does carry gen_ai.agent.name and rolled-up token counts): no billing attributes.
3. The session root invoke_agent span's github.copilot.nano_aiu rollup equals the sum of the main-agent chat spans' nano_aiu exactly — i.e. the subagent spend is not folded in anywhere.

Observed within a single trace from one session (models are our configured custom-agent models; the same holds for built-in task delegation):

In our sessions the unreported subagent calls account for roughly 10–15% of estimated session cost (rate-card priced from the token counts, which are reported).

Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.73

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Enable OTel export (COPILOT_OTEL_ENABLED with an OTLP endpoint, or COPILOT_OTEL_FILE_EXPORTER_PATH).
2. Run an interactive session and issue a prompt that delegates to a subagent — e.g. a custom agent configured with a different model, or anything that triggers the task tool.
3. Inspect the exported spans for the session trace.
4. Main-agent chat spans carry github.copilot.nano_aiu / github.copilot.cost; the subagent invoke_agent and chat spans carry token usage but no billing attributes, and the root rollup excludes them.

Expected behavior

Subagent model calls should carry the same billing attributes as main-agent calls (github.copilot.nano_aiu, github.copilot.cost), so that OTel-based cost accounting matches what is actually billed. Alternatively, if this is intentional (subagent calls genuinely bill zero credits), it would be great to have that documented in copilot help billing / the monitoring docs — though the cumulative session credit display suggests they are billed.

Additional context

• OS: Windows 11, x86_64, Windows Terminal / PowerShell (also reproduced from sessions on the same version exporting via OTLP to an OpenTelemetry Collector).
• Related issues: Show per-subagent AI credit usage breakdown in /usage #4207 (per-subagent credit breakdown in /usage — confirms subagent usage is part of session credit consumption), /usage premium request counter significantly undercounts actual quota consumption #1582 (/usage undercounts quota consumption; suspects background operations), Background compaction consumes 1 premium request (VS Code does not) #2068 (background compaction consumes a premium request), --output-format json omits token/cost usage that OTel exposes #4107 (verified nano_aiu matches the interactive footer exactly for main-agent sessions — the mismatch reported here only appears once subagents are involved), Feature Request: Emit cost / premium-request metric via OpenTelemetry (parity with Claude Code's claude_code.cost.usage) #3778 (OTel cost metric feature request).
• Happy to provide sanitized span exports (main-agent vs subagent, same trace) on request.