Source: GitHub Blog — 2026-07-01
Summary
GitHub Copilot's agent mode in VS Code can now drive a real headless browser natively — navigating pages, clicking, typing, and reading console output and screenshots — graduating out of preview to general availability, on by default.
Key Takeaways
- Agents can open/navigate URLs, click, type, hover, drag, and handle dialogs, capturing screenshots and console errors and feeding results back into chat.
- Security model isolates agent-opened browser tabs from the developer's existing cookies and open tabs.
- Enterprise admins get a dedicated on/off toggle plus network domain allow/deny lists for the browser tool.
- Every tool call is shown transparently in the UI, and terminal-tool use still requires explicit approval.