Kimi Code

Canonical page on the main site: chinaaihub.com/agents/kimi-code

Company

moonshot-ai

Description

Moonshot AI's terminal AI coding agent ('The Starting Point for Next-Gen Agents'), successor to the deprecated kimi-cli. CLI (TypeScript, MIT), VS Code extension and Desktop app; reads/edits code, runs shell commands, searches files, fetches web pages, plans and adjusts actions autonomously. Includes subagents, MCP, Kimi Computer Use, browser control (WebBridge/Browser Extension) and multimodal input (text, images, video). Billed under Kimi membership.

Agent Type

coding

Underlying Models

• kimi-k3
• kimi-k2.7-code
• kimi-k2.7-code-highspeed

Tool Calling

Yes

Browser Use

Yes

Computer Use

Yes

Mcp

Yes

Framework

TypeScript terminal agent (pi-tui); succeeds the deprecated Python kimi-cli

Planning

Yes

Multi Agent

Yes

Api

Yes

Pricing

Included with Kimi membership, Plus and above (Adagio free tier has no coding quota; Plus $15/mo, Pro $31/mo, Max $79/mo, Ultra $159/mo). All clients share one quota with rolling 5-hour window and monthly total. Open Platform API pay-as-you-go: kimi-k3 $3.00/M input / $15.00/M output; kimi-k2.7-code $0.95/$4.00; kimi-k2.7-code-highspeed $1.90/$8.00.

Deployment

both

Open Source

Yes

License

MIT

Github

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code

Documentation

https://moonshotai.github.io/kimi-code/en/

Use Cases

• Understanding unfamiliar codebases and implementing features
• Bug fixing, writing tests, refactoring
• Batch file processing
• Long-horizon whole-repo work via 1M-token context (K3)
• Video-input tasks (screen recording to code)
• Scheduled and background tasks
• IDE-driven sessions via VS Code extension or ACP (Zed, JetBrains)

Limitations

• Runs on the local machine with approval gates; no dedicated OS-level sandbox engine
• kimi-cli predecessor deprecated and being wound down (auto-migrated on install)
• Computer Use (macOS) needs Accessibility + Screen Recording permissions; Windows version may briefly take over mouse/keyboard
• Third-party tools must keep the real client identifier (User-Agent tampering restricted)
• Cloud inference only (managed endpoints api.kimi.com/coding/v1 and api.kimi.ai/coding/v1); not self-hostable as a model service
• Windows install requires Git for Windows
• API keys shown only once (max 5); quota shared across devices; devices inactive >30 days unbound

Last Verified

2026-09-20

Sources

source_name	source_url	source_type	last_verified	confidence
Kimi Code GitHub repository	https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code	official	2026-09-20	high
Kimi Code CLI documentation	https://moonshotai.github.io/kimi-code/en/	official	2026-09-20	high
Kimi Code product docs	https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/	official	2026-09-20	high
Kimi membership pricing	https://www.kimi.ai/membership/pricing	official	2026-09-20	high