GitHub's Biggest Copilot Day Yet: Vision GA, Browser Tools, Kimi K2.7, Auto-Model Routing — and GitHub Models Retiring July 30

TL;DR: GitHub shipped eight Copilot + VS Code 1.127 updates on July 1 — the headline is Copilot Vision on all plans and Browser Tools GA. If you use GitHub Models, it shuts down July 30.

Copilot Vision: GA on all tiers. Attach images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP) and PDFs directly to Copilot chat in VS Code, github.com, and the CLI — paste, drag-and-drop, or right-click. Available on Free, Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise. No policy needed.

Browser Tools for VS Code: GA. Copilot agents can now open pages, click, type, take screenshots, and read console errors in an integrated browser — isolated from your own tabs. Admins can restrict with the BrowserChatTools policy or a domain allowlist. The VS Code 1.127 release also ships a terminal sandboxing feature (macOS/Linux): agent-run commands execute with filesystem and network restrictions; only elevated commands surface for approval.

Kimi K2.7 in the model picker. The first open-weight model available as a selectable choice in Copilot's model picker. Available on Pro, Pro+, and Max plans across VS Code, JetBrains, and Xcode. Off by default for Business (admin opt-in).

Copilot CLI: auto model routing. Routes each request to the best model based on reasoning complexity, code generation difficulty, and tool orchestration needs. 10% discount for paid subscribers; billing at each model's published rate. Use /model to switch to Auto.

GitHub Models retiring July 30. The playground, catalog, inference API, and BYOK endpoints all shut down — with brownouts on July 16 and 23 as warnings. Migrate to Azure AI Foundry (for the model catalog) or GitHub Copilot (for integrated workflows) before July 30.

Why it matters: Copilot can now see what it built (Browser Tools) and what you're looking at (Vision) — two missing links for truly agentic IDE workflows. If you built anything on GitHub Models' inference API, you have four weeks to migrate.

Sources: GitHub Changelog — July 1 | VS Code 1.127 release notes | GitHub Models retirement