AI Token Sharing Between Developers Offers Accidental Fix for Usage Cap Inequality

Uneven AI token consumption across development teams has led to an informal practice where developers with surplus allowances run tasks scoped by colleagues who have exhausted their limits. In this arrangement, one developer defines a GitHub issue in precise detail, while a so-called Token Donor uses their remaining compute budget to let an agent execute it autonomously. Because the donor provides no additional context, the original issue must be written with enough clarity for an agent to act on it independently, effectively enforcing better ticket quality. Ownership of the resulting code remains with the issue author, while the donor functions purely as a compute resource with no decision-making role. The practice also highlights token efficiency as an emerging engineering skill, with per-branch usage logs cited as a way to identify who genuinely holds surplus capacity.