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VS Code Copilot Student Models Disappeared After Installing Kilo Code — Need Help Diagnosing

Hi everyone, I’m trying to figure out what happened to my GitHub Copilot Student model access in VS Code.

My original setup

I have the GitHub Student Developer Pack and was using GitHub Copilot in VS Code. Previously, I could see multiple AI models in the VS Code model picker.

I was also experimenting with Kilo Code and configured it with OpenRouter to use models through VS Code.

After installing/configuring Kilo Code, my previous model setup disappeared.

What happened

After the Kilo Code setup, the VS Code model picker changed. Instead of the models I previously had, I started seeing something like:

Auto
Claude Haiku 4.5       Upgrade
Claude Sonnet ...      Upgrade
GPT-5.6 Terra          Upgrade

I then completely removed Kilo Code, but the models did not come back.

I also tried looking at my VS Code Settings Sync history because Sync was enabled.

I found multiple synced machines:

Windows (Code) #4 — Current
Windows (Code) #1
Windows (Code) #2
Windows (Code) #3

I checked the remote Sync activity and found many changes around the time of the problem, including:

Extensions — 21 mins ago
Settings   — 20 mins ago
UI State
Extensions
UI State
...

I also considered switching back to an older synced machine/configuration, including one from about a month ago, but that did not solve the issue.

What I checked

My GitHub account in VS Code is:

Ktripathi2611

This is the same GitHub account associated with my Student Developer Pack.

GitHub's website also shows that the relevant Copilot features are enabled, including:

• Copilot Chat in the IDE
• Copilot Chat on GitHub.com
• Copilot CLI
• Copilot in GitHub Desktop
• Copilot features generally

The GitHub Copilot Chat extension is installed and enabled in VS Code.

I checked settings.json

There doesn't appear to be an obvious Copilot-disable setting or OpenRouter configuration in my normal settings.json.

The relevant AI settings I have are things such as:

"gitlens.ai.model": "vscode",
"gitlens.ai.vscode.model": "copilot:gemini-3.1-pro-preview",
"chat.byokUtilityModelDefault": "mainAgent",
"editor.aiStats.enabled": true,
"chat.agent.sandbox.enabled": "on"

Nothing obviously disables Copilot.

The strange part

When I open:

VS Code → Language Models

the only model actually listed is:

Auto

There are no individual GitHub Copilot models listed there.

I also checked:

Manage Language Model Access

and initially saw:

0 Selected

No extensions have access
No extensions are currently allowed to use models from GitHub.copilot-chat

I then checked the Copilot logs

The logs show that Copilot is actually authenticating successfully.

For example:

Logged in as Ktripathi2611
Got Copilot token for Ktripathi2611
copilot token sku: free_educational_quota

The logs also show:

Fetched model metadata
ConversationFeature: BYOK models available

Interestingly, VS Code reports that the following BYOK providers are registered:

ollama
anthropic
gemini
xai
openai
openrouter
azure
customoai
customendpoint

So OpenRouter itself hasn't completely disappeared from the VS Code BYOK system.

There was also a temporary GitHub login failure:

17:03:44 GitHub login failed

but about 10 seconds later:

17:03:54 Logged in as Ktripathi2611
17:03:55 Got Copilot token

So authentication appears to recover successfully.

Current situation

As far as I can tell:

GitHub account                    ✅
Student Developer Pack            ✅
Copilot entitlement detected      ✅
Copilot token                     ✅
Copilot Chat extension            ✅
Copilot AI features               ✅
VS Code Chat                      ✅

Language Models list              ⚠️ Only "Auto"
Individual Copilot models         ❌ Not visible
Previous model setup              ❌ Missing

My main question is:

Why are the individual GitHub Copilot models no longer appearing in VS Code's Language Models list even though my Student Copilot entitlement, authentication, and Copilot extension are working?

I am not interested in restoring OpenRouter at this point. I specifically want to understand and restore the GitHub Copilot models that I previously had available in VS Code.

Could this have been caused by Kilo Code changing VS Code's model-provider/extension state, or is this simply a change/restriction with the current Copilot Student plan?

Any help identifying the actual root cause would be appreciated.