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This page documents the changes in each Kimi Code CLI release.

Unreleased

1.13.0 (2026-02-24)

  • Core: Add automatic connection recovery that recreates the HTTP client on connection and timeout errors before retrying, improving resilience against transient network failures

1.12.0 (2026-02-11)

  • Web: Add subagent activity rendering to display subagent steps (thinking, tool calls, text) inside Task tool messages
  • Web: Add Think tool rendering as a lightweight reasoning-style block
  • Web: Replace emoji status indicators with Lucide icons for tool states and add category-specific icons for tool names
  • Web: Enhance Reasoning component with improved thinking labels and status icons
  • Web: Enhance Todo component with status icons and improved styling
  • Web: Implement WebSocket reconnection with automatic request resending and stale connection watchdog
  • Web: Enhance session creation dialog with command value handling
  • Web: Support tilde (~) expansion in session work directory paths
  • Web: Fix assistant message content overflow clipping
  • Wire: Fix deadlock when multiple subagents run concurrently by not blocking the UI loop on approval and tool-call requests
  • Wire: Clean up stale pending requests after agent turn ends
  • Web: Show placeholder text in prompt input with hints for slash commands and file mentions
  • Web: Fix Ctrl+C not working in uvicorn web server by restoring default SIGINT handler and terminal state after shell mode exits
  • Web: Improve session stop handling with proper async cleanup and timeout

1.11.0 (2026-02-10)

  • Web: Move context usage indicator from workspace header to prompt toolbar with a hover card showing detailed token usage breakdown
  • Web: Add folder indicator with work directory path to the bottom of the file changes panel
  • Web: Fix stderr not being restored when switching to web mode, which could suppress web server error output
  • Web: Fix port availability check by setting SO_REUSEADDR on the test socket

1.10.0 (2026-02-09)

  • Web: Add copy and fork action buttons to assistant messages for quick content copying and session forking
  • Web: Add keyboard shortcuts for approval actions — press 1 to approve, 2 to approve for session, 3 to decline
  • Web: Add message queueing — queue follow-up messages while the AI is processing; queued messages are sent automatically when the response completes
  • Web: Replace Git diff status bar with unified prompt toolbar showing activity status, message queue, and file changes in collapsible tabs
  • Web: Load global MCP configuration in web worker so web sessions can use MCP tools
  • Web: Improve mobile prompt input UX — reduce textarea min-height, add autoComplete="off", and disable focus ring on small screens
  • Web: Handle models that stream text before thinking by ensuring thinking messages always appear before text in the message list
  • Web: Show more specific status messages during session connection ("Loading history...", "Starting environment..." instead of generic "Connecting...")
  • Web: Send error status when session environment initialization fails instead of leaving UI in a waiting state
  • Web: Auto-reconnect when no session status received within 15 seconds after history replay completes
  • Web: Use non-blocking file I/O in session streaming to avoid blocking the event loop during history replay

1.9.0 (2026-02-06)

  • Config: Add default_yolo config option to enable YOLO (auto-approve) mode by default
  • Config: Accept both max_steps_per_turn and max_steps_per_run as aliases for the loop control setting
  • Wire: Add replay request to stream recorded Wire events (protocol version 1.3)
  • Web: Add session fork feature to branch off a new session from any assistant response
  • Web: Add session archive feature with auto-archive for sessions older than 15 days
  • Web: Add multi-select mode for bulk archive, unarchive, and delete operations
  • Web: Add media preview for tool results (images/videos from ReadMediaFile) with clickable thumbnails
  • Web: Add shell command and todo list display components for tool outputs
  • Web: Add activity status indicator showing agent state (processing, waiting for approval, etc.)
  • Web: Add error fallback UI when images fail to load
  • Web: Redesign tool input UI with expandable parameters and syntax highlighting for long values
  • Web: Show compaction indicator when context is being compacted
  • Web: Improve auto-scroll behavior in chat for smoother following of new content
  • Web: Update last_session_id for work directory when session stream starts
  • Shell: Remove Ctrl-/ keyboard shortcut that triggered /help command
  • Rust: Move the Rust implementation to MoonshotAI/kimi-agent-rs with independent releases; binary renamed to kimi-agent
  • Core: Preserve session id when reloading configuration so the session resumes correctly
  • Shell: Fix session replay showing messages that were cleared by /clear or /reset
  • Web: Fix approval request states not updating when session is interrupted or cancelled
  • Web: Fix IME composition issue when selecting slash commands
  • Web: Fix UI not clearing messages after /clear, /reset, or /compact commands

1.8.0 (2026-02-05)

  • CLI: Fix startup errors (e.g. invalid config files) being silently swallowed instead of displayed

1.7.0 (2026-02-05)

  • Rust: Add kagent, the Rust implementation of Kimi agent kernel with wire-mode support (experimental)
  • Auth: Fix OAuth token refresh conflicts when running multiple sessions simultaneously
  • Web: Add file mention menu (@) to reference uploaded attachments and workspace files with autocomplete
  • Web: Add slash command menu in chat input with autocomplete, keyboard navigation, and alias support
  • Web: Prompt to create directory when specified path doesn't exist during session creation
  • Web: Fix authentication token persistence by switching from sessionStorage to localStorage with 24-hour expiry
  • Web: Add server-side pagination for session list with virtualized scrolling for better performance
  • Web: Improve session and work directories loading with smarter caching and invalidation
  • Web: Fix WebSocket errors during history replay by checking connection state before sending
  • Web: Git diff status bar now shows untracked files (new files not yet added to git)
  • Web: Restrict sensitive APIs only in public mode; update origin enforcement logic

1.6 (2026-02-03)

  • Web: Add token-based authentication and access control for network mode (--network, --lan-only, --public)
  • Web: Add security options: --auth-token, --allowed-origins, --restrict-sensitive-apis, --dangerously-omit-auth
  • Web: Change --host option to bind to specific IP address; add automatic network address detection
  • Web: Fix WebSocket disconnect when creating new sessions
  • Web: Increase maximum image dimension from 1024 to 4096 pixels
  • Web: Improve UI responsiveness with enhanced hover effects and better layout handling
  • Wire: Add TurnEnd event to signal the completion of an agent turn (protocol version 1.2)
  • Core: Fix custom agent prompt files containing $ causing silent startup failure

1.5 (2026-01-30)

  • Web: Add Git diff status bar showing uncommitted changes in session working directory
  • Web: Add "Open in" menu for opening files/directories in Terminal, VS Code, Cursor, or other local applications
  • Web: Add search functionality to filter sessions by title or working directory
  • Web: Improve session title display with proper overflow handling

1.4 (2026-01-30)

  • Shell: Merge /login and /setup commands; /setup is now an alias for /login
  • Shell: /usage now shows remaining quota percentage; add /status alias
  • Config: Add KIMI_SHARE_DIR environment variable to customize the share directory path (default: ~/.kimi)
  • Web: Add new Web UI for browser-based interaction
  • CLI: Add kimi web subcommand to launch the Web UI server
  • Auth: Fix encoding error when device name or OS version contains non-ASCII characters
  • Auth: OAuth credentials are now stored in files instead of keyring; existing tokens are automatically migrated on startup
  • Auth: Fix authorization failure after the system sleeps or hibernates

1.3 (2026-01-28)

  • Auth: Fix authentication issue during agent turns
  • Tool: Wrap media content with descriptive tags in ReadMediaFile for better path traceability

1.2 (2026-01-27)

  • UI: Show description for kimi-for-coding model

1.1 (2026-01-27)

  • LLM: Fix kimi-for-coding model's capabilities

1.0 (2026-01-27)

  • Shell: Add /login and /logout slash commands for login and logout
  • CLI: Add kimi login and kimi logout subcommands
  • Core: Fix subagent approval request handling

0.88 (2026-01-26)

  • MCP: Remove Mcp-Session-Id header when connecting to MCP servers to fix compatibility

0.87 (2026-01-25)

  • Shell: Fix Markdown rendering error when HTML blocks appear outside any element
  • Skills: Add more user-level and project-level skills directory candidates
  • Core: Improve system prompt guidance for media file generation and processing tasks
  • Shell: Fix image pasting from clipboard on macOS

0.86 (2026-01-24)

  • Build: Fix binary builds

0.85 (2026-01-24)

  • Shell: Cache pasted images to disk for persistence across sessions
  • Shell: Deduplicate cached attachments based on content hash
  • Shell: Fix display of image/audio/video attachments in message history
  • Tool: Use file path as media identifier in ReadMediaFile for better traceability
  • Tool: Fix some MP4 files not being recognized as videos
  • Shell: Handle Ctrl-C during slash command execution
  • Shell: Fix shlex parsing error in shell mode when input contains invalid shell syntax
  • Shell: Fix stderr output from MCP servers and third-party libraries polluting shell UI
  • Wire: Graceful shutdown with proper cleanup of pending requests when connection closes or Ctrl-C is received

0.84 (2026-01-22)

  • Build: Add cross-platform standalone binary builds for Windows, macOS (with code signing and notarization), and Linux (x86_64 and ARM64)
  • Shell: Fix slash command autocomplete showing suggestions for exact command/alias matches
  • Tool: Treat SVG files as text instead of images
  • Flow: Support D2 markdown block strings (|md syntax) for multiline node labels in flow skills
  • Core: Fix possible "event loop is closed" error after running /reload, /setup, or /clear
  • Core: Fix panic when /clear is used in a continued session

0.83 (2026-01-21)

  • Tool: Add ReadMediaFile tool for reading image/video files; ReadFile now focuses on text files only
  • Skills: Flow skills now also register as /skill:<skill-name> commands (in addition to /flow:<skill-name>)

0.82 (2026-01-21)

  • Tool: Allow WriteFile and StrReplaceFile tools to edit/write files outside the working directory when using absolute paths
  • Tool: Upload videos to Kimi files API when using Kimi provider, replacing inline data URLs with ms:// references
  • Config: Add reserved_context_size setting to customize auto-compaction trigger threshold (default: 50000 tokens)

0.81 (2026-01-21)

  • Skills: Add flow skill type with embedded Agent Flow (Mermaid/D2) in SKILL.md, invoked via /flow:<skill-name> commands
  • CLI: Remove --prompt-flow option; use flow skills instead
  • Core: Replace /begin command with /flow:<skill-name> commands for flow skills

0.80 (2026-01-20)

  • Wire: Add initialize method for exchanging client/server info, external tools registration and slash commands advertisement
  • Wire: Support external tool calls via Wire protocol
  • Wire: Rename ApprovalRequestResolved to ApprovalResponse (backwards-compatible)

0.79 (2026-01-19)

  • Skills: Add project-level skills support, discovered from .agents/skills/ (or .kimi/skills/, .claude/skills/)
  • Skills: Unified skills discovery with layered loading (builtin → user → project); user-level skills now prefer ~/.config/agents/skills/
  • Shell: Support fuzzy matching for slash command autocomplete
  • Shell: Enhanced approval request preview with shell command and diff content display, use Ctrl-E to expand full content
  • Wire: Add ShellDisplayBlock type for shell command display in approval requests
  • Shell: Reorder /help to show keyboard shortcuts before slash commands
  • Wire: Return proper JSON-RPC 2.0 error responses for invalid requests

0.78 (2026-01-16)

  • CLI: Add D2 flowchart format support for Prompt Flow (.d2 extension)

0.77 (2026-01-15)

  • Shell: Fix line breaking in /help and /changelog fullscreen pager display
  • Shell: Use /model to toggle thinking mode instead of Tab key
  • Config: Add default_thinking config option (need to run /model to select thinking mode after upgrade)
  • LLM: Add always_thinking capability for models that always use thinking mode
  • CLI: Rename --command/-c to --prompt/-p, keep --command/-c as alias, remove --query/-q
  • Wire: Fix approval requests not responding properly in Wire mode
  • CLI: Add --prompt-flow option to load a Mermaid flowchart file as a Prompt Flow
  • Core: Add /begin slash command if a Prompt Flow is loaded to start the flow
  • Core: Replace Ralph Loop with Prompt Flow-based implementation

0.76 (2026-01-12)

  • Tool: Make ReadFile tool description reflect model capabilities for image/video support
  • Tool: Fix TypeScript files (.ts, .tsx, .mts, .cts) being misidentified as video files
  • Shell: Allow slash commands (/help, /exit, /version, /changelog, /feedback) in shell mode
  • Shell: Improve /help with fullscreen pager, showing slash commands, skills, and keyboard shortcuts
  • Shell: Improve /changelog and /mcp display with consistent bullet-style formatting
  • Shell: Show current model name in the bottom status bar
  • Shell: Add Ctrl-/ shortcut to show help

0.75 (2026-01-09)

  • Tool: Improve ReadFile tool description
  • Skills: Add built-in kimi-cli-help skill to answer Kimi Code CLI usage and configuration questions

0.74 (2026-01-09)

  • ACP: Allow ACP clients to select and switch models (with thinking variants)
  • ACP: Add terminal-auth authentication method for setup flow
  • CLI: Deprecate --acp option in favor of kimi acp subcommand
  • Tool: Support reading image and video files in ReadFile tool

0.73 (2026-01-09)

  • Skills: Add built-in skill-creator skill shipped with the package
  • Tool: Expand ~ to the home directory in ReadFile paths
  • MCP: Ensure MCP tools finish loading before starting the agent loop
  • Wire: Fix Wire mode failing to accept valid cancel requests
  • Setup: Allow /model to switch between all available models for the selected provider
  • Lib: Re-export all Wire message types from kimi_cli.wire.types, as a replacement of kimi_cli.wire.message
  • Loop: Add max_ralph_iterations loop control config to limit extra Ralph iterations
  • Config: Rename max_steps_per_run to max_steps_per_turn in loop control config (backward-compatible)
  • CLI: Add --max-steps-per-turn, --max-retries-per-step and --max-ralph-iterations options to override loop control config
  • SlashCmd: Make /yolo toggle auto-approve mode
  • UI: Show a YOLO badge in the shell prompt

0.72 (2026-01-04)

  • Python: Fix installation on Python 3.14.

0.71 (2026-01-04)

  • ACP: Route file reads/writes and shell commands through ACP clients for synced edits/output
  • Shell: Add /model slash command to switch default models and reload when using the default config
  • Skills: Add /skill:<name> slash commands to load SKILL.md instructions on demand
  • CLI: Add kimi info subcommand for version/protocol details (supports --json)
  • CLI: Add kimi term to launch the Toad terminal UI
  • Python: Bump the default tooling/CI version to 3.14

0.70 (2025-12-31)

  • CLI: Add --final-message-only (and --quiet alias) to only output the final assistant message in print UI
  • LLM: Add video_in model capability and support video inputs

0.69 (2025-12-29)

  • Core: Support discovering skills in ~/.kimi/skills or ~/.claude/skills
  • Python: Lower the minimum required Python version to 3.12
  • Nix: Add flake packaging; install with nix profile install .#kimi-cli or run nix run .#kimi-cli
  • CLI: Add kimi-cli script alias for invoking the CLI; can be run via uvx kimi-cli
  • Lib: Move LLM config validation into create_llm and return None when missing config

0.68 (2025-12-24)

  • CLI: Add --config and --config-file options to pass in config JSON/TOML
  • Core: Allow Config in addition to Path for the config parameter of KimiCLI.create
  • Tool: Include diff display blocks in WriteFile and StrReplaceFile approvals/results
  • Wire: Add display blocks to approval requests (including diffs) with backward-compatible defaults
  • ACP: Show file diff previews in tool results and approval prompts
  • ACP: Connect to MCP servers managed by ACP clients
  • ACP: Run shell commands in ACP client terminal if supported
  • Lib: Add KimiToolset.find method to find tools by class or name
  • Lib: Add ToolResultBuilder.display method to append display blocks to tool results
  • MCP: Add kimi mcp auth and related subcommands to manage MCP authorization

0.67 (2025-12-22)

  • ACP: Advertise slash commands in single-session ACP mode (kimi --acp)
  • MCP: Add mcp.client config section to configure MCP tool call timeout and other future options
  • Core: Improve default system prompt and ReadFile tool
  • UI: Fix Ctrl-C not working in some rare cases

0.66 (2025-12-19)

  • Lib: Provide token_usage and message_id in StatusUpdate Wire message
  • Lib: Add KimiToolset.load_tools method to load tools with dependency injection
  • Lib: Add KimiToolset.load_mcp_tools method to load MCP tools
  • Lib: Move MCPTool from kimi_cli.tools.mcp to kimi_cli.soul.toolset
  • Lib: Add InvalidToolError, MCPConfigError and MCPRuntimeError
  • Lib: Make the detailed Kimi Code CLI exception classes extend ValueError or RuntimeError
  • Lib: Allow passing validated list[fastmcp.mcp_config.MCPConfig] as mcp_configs for KimiCLI.create and load_agent
  • Lib: Fix exception raising for KimiCLI.create, load_agent, KimiToolset.load_tools and KimiToolset.load_mcp_tools
  • LLM: Add provider type vertexai to support Vertex AI
  • LLM: Rename Gemini Developer API provider type from google_genai to gemini
  • Config: Migrate config file from JSON to TOML
  • MCP: Connect to MCP servers in background and parallel to reduce startup time
  • MCP: Add mcp-session-id HTTP header when connecting to MCP servers
  • Lib: Split slash commands (prev "meta commands") into two groups: Shell-level and KimiSoul-level
  • Lib: Add available_slash_commands property to Soul protocol
  • ACP: Advertise slash commands /init, /compact and /yolo to ACP clients
  • SlashCmd: Add /mcp slash command to display MCP server and tool status

0.65 (2025-12-16)

  • Lib: Support creating named sessions via Session.create(work_dir, session_id)
  • CLI: Automatically create new session when specified session ID is not found
  • CLI: Delete empty sessions on exit and ignore sessions whose context file is empty when listing
  • UI: Improve session replaying
  • Lib: Add model_config: LLMModel | None and provider_config: LLMProvider | None properties to LLM class
  • MetaCmd: Add /usage meta command to show API usage for Kimi Code users

0.64 (2025-12-15)

  • UI: Fix UTF-16 surrogate characters input on Windows
  • Core: Add /sessions meta command to list existing sessions and switch to a selected one
  • CLI: Add --session/-S option to specify session ID to resume
  • MCP: Add kimi mcp subcommand group to manage global MCP config file ~/.kimi/mcp.json

0.63 (2025-12-12)

  • Tool: Fix FetchURL tool incorrect output when fetching via service fails
  • Tool: Use bash instead of sh in Shell tool for better compatibility
  • Tool: Fix Grep tool unicode decoding error on Windows
  • ACP: Support ACP session continuation (list/load sessions) with kimi acp subcommand
  • Lib: Add Session.find and Session.list static methods to find and list sessions
  • ACP: Update agent plans on the client side when SetTodoList tool is called
  • UI: Prevent normal messages starting with / from being treated as meta commands

0.62 (2025-12-08)

  • ACP: Fix tool results (including Shell tool output) not being displayed in ACP clients like Zed
  • ACP: Fix compatibility with the latest version of Zed IDE (0.215.3)
  • Tool: Use PowerShell instead of CMD on Windows for better usability
  • Core: Fix startup crash when there is broken symbolic link in the working directory
  • Core: Add builtin okabe agent file with SendDMail tool enabled
  • CLI: Add --agent option to specify builtin agents like default and okabe
  • Core: Improve compaction logic to better preserve relevant information

0.61 (2025-12-04)

  • Lib: Fix logging when used as a library
  • Tool: Harden file path check to protect against shared-prefix escape
  • LLM: Improve compatibility with some third-party OpenAI Responses and Anthropic API providers

0.60 (2025-12-01)

  • LLM: Fix interleaved thinking for Kimi and OpenAI-compatible providers

0.59 (2025-11-28)

  • Core: Move context file location to .kimi/sessions/{workdir_md5}/{session_id}/context.jsonl
  • Lib: Move WireMessage type alias to kimi_cli.wire.message
  • Lib: Add kimi_cli.wire.message.Request type alias request messages (which currently only includes ApprovalRequest)
  • Lib: Add kimi_cli.wire.message.is_event, is_request and is_wire_message utility functions to check the type of wire messages
  • Lib: Add kimi_cli.wire.serde module for serialization and deserialization of wire messages
  • Lib: Change StatusUpdate Wire message to not using kimi_cli.soul.StatusSnapshot
  • Core: Record Wire messages to a JSONL file in session directory
  • Core: Introduce TurnBegin Wire message to mark the beginning of each agent turn
  • UI: Print user input again with a panel in shell mode
  • Lib: Add Session.dir property to get the session directory path
  • UI: Improve "Approve for session" experience when there are multiple parallel subagents
  • Wire: Reimplement Wire server mode (which is enabled with --wire option)
  • Lib: Rename ShellApp to Shell, PrintApp to Print, ACPServer to ACP and WireServer to WireOverStdio for better consistency
  • Lib: Rename KimiCLI.run_shell_mode to run_shell, run_print_mode to run_print, run_acp_server to run_acp, and run_wire_server to run_wire_stdio for better consistency
  • Lib: Add KimiCLI.run method to run a turn with given user input and yield Wire messages
  • Print: Fix stream-json print mode not flushing output properly
  • LLM: Improve compatibility with some OpenAI and Anthropic API providers
  • Core: Fix chat provider error after compaction when using Anthropic API

0.58 (2025-11-21)

  • Core: Fix field inheritance of agent spec files when using extend
  • Core: Support using MCP tools in subagents
  • Tool: Add CreateSubagent tool to create subagents dynamically (not enabled in default agent)
  • Tool: Use MoonshotFetch service in FetchURL tool for Kimi Code plan
  • Tool: Truncate Grep tool output to avoid exceeding token limit

0.57 (2025-11-20)

  • LLM: Fix Google GenAI provider when thinking toggle is not on
  • UI: Improve approval request wordings
  • Tool: Remove PatchFile tool
  • Tool: Rename Bash/CMD tool to Shell tool
  • Tool: Move Task tool to kimi_cli.tools.multiagent module

0.56 (2025-11-19)

  • LLM: Add support for Google GenAI provider

0.55 (2025-11-18)

  • Lib: Add kimi_cli.app.enable_logging function to enable logging when directly using KimiCLI class
  • Core: Fix relative path resolution in agent spec files
  • Core: Prevent from panic when LLM API connection failed
  • Tool: Optimize FetchURL tool for better content extraction
  • Tool: Increase MCP tool call timeout to 60 seconds
  • Tool: Provide better error message in Glob tool when pattern is **
  • ACP: Fix thinking content not displayed properly
  • UI: Minor UI improvements in shell mode

0.54 (2025-11-13)

  • Lib: Move WireMessage from kimi_cli.wire.message to kimi_cli.wire
  • Print: Fix stream-json output format missing the last assistant message
  • UI: Add warning when API key is overridden by KIMI_API_KEY environment variable
  • UI: Make a bell sound when there's an approval request
  • Core: Fix context compaction and clearing on Windows

0.53 (2025-11-12)

  • UI: Remove unnecessary trailing spaces in console output
  • Core: Throw error when there are unsupported message parts
  • MetaCmd: Add /yolo meta command to enable YOLO mode after startup
  • Tool: Add approval request for MCP tools
  • Tool: Disable Think tool in default agent
  • CLI: Restore thinking mode from last time when --thinking is not specified
  • CLI: Fix /reload not working in binary packed by PyInstaller

0.52 (2025-11-10)

  • CLI: Remove --ui option in favor of --print, --acp, and --wire flags (shell is still the default)
  • CLI: More intuitive session continuation behavior
  • Core: Add retry for LLM empty responses
  • Tool: Change Bash tool to CMD tool on Windows
  • UI: Fix completion after backspacing
  • UI: Fix code block rendering issues on light background colors

0.51 (2025-11-08)

  • Lib: Rename Soul.model to Soul.model_name
  • Lib: Rename LLMModelCapability to ModelCapability and move to kimi_cli.llm
  • Lib: Add "thinking" to ModelCapability
  • Lib: Remove LLM.supports_image_in property
  • Lib: Add required Soul.model_capabilities property
  • Lib: Rename KimiSoul.set_thinking_mode to KimiSoul.set_thinking
  • Lib: Add KimiSoul.thinking property
  • UI: Better checks and notices for LLM model capabilities
  • UI: Clear the screen for /clear meta command
  • Tool: Support auto-downloading ripgrep on Windows
  • CLI: Add --thinking option to start in thinking mode
  • ACP: Support thinking content in ACP mode

0.50 (2025-11-07)

  • Improve UI look and feel
  • Improve Task tool observability

0.49 (2025-11-06)

  • Minor UX improvements

0.48 (2025-11-06)

  • Support Kimi K2 thinking mode

0.47 (2025-11-05)

  • Fix Ctrl-W not working in some environments
  • Do not load SearchWeb tool when the search service is not configured

0.46 (2025-11-03)

  • Introduce Wire over stdio for local IPC (experimental, subject to change)

  • Support Anthropic provider type

  • Fix binary packed by PyInstaller not working due to wrong entrypoint

0.45 (2025-10-31)

  • Allow KIMI_MODEL_CAPABILITIES environment variable to override model capabilities

  • Add --no-markdown option to disable markdown rendering

  • Support openai_responses LLM provider type

  • Fix crash when continuing a session

0.44 (2025-10-30)

  • Improve startup time

  • Fix potential invalid bytes in user input

0.43 (2025-10-30)

  • Basic Windows support (experimental)

  • Display warnings when base URL or API key is overridden in environment variables

  • Support image input if the LLM model supports it

  • Replay recent context history when continuing a session

  • Ensure new line after executing shell commands

0.42 (2025-10-28)

  • Support Ctrl-J or Alt-Enter to insert a new line

  • Change mode switch shortcut from Ctrl-K to Ctrl-X

  • Improve overall robustness

  • Fix ACP server no attribute error

0.41 (2025-10-26)

  • Fix a bug for Glob tool when no matching files are found

  • Ensure reading files with UTF-8 encoding

  • Disable reading command/query from stdin in shell mode

  • Clarify the API platform selection in /setup meta command

0.40 (2025-10-24)

  • Support ESC key to interrupt the agent loop

  • Fix SSL certificate verification error in some rare cases

  • Fix possible decoding error in Bash tool

0.39 (2025-10-24)

  • Fix context compaction threshold check
  • Fix panic when SOCKS proxy is set in the shell session

0.38 (2025-10-24)

  • Minor UX improvements

0.37 (2025-10-24)

  • Fix update checking

0.36 (2025-10-24)

  • Add /debug meta command to debug the context

  • Add auto context compaction

  • Add approval request mechanism

  • Add --yolo option to automatically approve all actions

  • Render markdown content for better readability

  • Fix "unknown error" message when interrupting a meta command

0.35 (2025-10-22)

  • Minor UI improvements
  • Auto download ripgrep if not found in the system
  • Always approve tool calls in --print mode
  • Add /feedback meta command

0.34 (2025-10-21)

  • Add /update meta command to check for updates and auto-update in background
  • Support running interactive shell commands in raw shell mode
  • Add /setup meta command to setup LLM provider and model
  • Add /reload meta command to reload configuration

0.33 (2025-10-18)

  • Add /version meta command

  • Add raw shell mode, which can be switched to by Ctrl-K

  • Show shortcuts in bottom status line

  • Fix logging redirection

  • Merge duplicated input histories

0.32 (2025-10-16)

  • Add bottom status line

  • Support file path auto-completion (@filepath)

  • Do not auto-complete meta command in the middle of user input

0.31 (2025-10-14)

  • Fix step interrupting by Ctrl-C, for real

0.30 (2025-10-14)

  • Add /compact meta command to allow manually compacting context

  • Fix /clear meta command when context is empty

0.29 (2025-10-14)

  • Support Enter key to accept completion in shell mode

  • Remember user input history across sessions in shell mode

  • Add /reset meta command as an alias for /clear

  • Fix step interrupting by Ctrl-C

  • Disable SendDMail tool in Kimi Koder agent

0.28 (2025-10-13)

  • Add /init meta command to analyze the codebase and generate an AGENTS.md file

  • Add /clear meta command to clear the context

  • Fix ReadFile output

0.27 (2025-10-11)

  • Add --mcp-config-file and --mcp-config options to load MCP configs

  • Rename --agent option to --agent-file

0.26 (2025-10-11)

  • Fix possible encoding error in --output-format stream-json mode

0.25 (2025-10-11)

  • Rename package name ensoul to kimi-cli
  • Rename ENSOUL_* builtin system prompt arguments to KIMI_*
  • Further decouple App with Soul
  • Split Soul protocol and KimiSoul implementation for better modularity

0.24 (2025-10-10)

  • Fix ACP cancel method

0.23 (2025-10-09)

  • Add extend field to agent file to support agent file extension
  • Add exclude_tools field to agent file to support excluding tools
  • Add subagents field to agent file to support defining subagents

0.22 (2025-10-09)

  • Improve SearchWeb and FetchURL tool call visualization
  • Improve search result output format

0.21 (2025-10-09)

  • Add --print option as a shortcut for --ui print, --acp option as a shortcut for --ui acp

  • Support --output-format stream-json to print output in JSON format

  • Add SearchWeb tool with services.moonshot_search configuration. You need to configure it with "services": {"moonshot_search": {"api_key": "your-search-api-key"}} in your config file.

  • Add FetchURL tool

  • Add Think tool

  • Add PatchFile tool, not enabled in Kimi Koder agent

  • Enable SendDMail and Task tool in Kimi Koder agent with better tool prompts

  • Add ENSOUL_NOW builtin system prompt argument

  • Better-looking /release-notes

  • Improve tool descriptions

  • Improve tool output truncation

0.20 (2025-09-30)

  • Add --ui acp option to start Agent Client Protocol (ACP) server

0.19 (2025-09-29)

  • Support piped stdin for print UI

  • Support --input-format=stream-json for piped JSON input

  • Do not include CHECKPOINT messages in the context when SendDMail is not enabled

0.18 (2025-09-29)

  • Support max_context_size in LLM model configurations to configure the maximum context size (in tokens)

  • Improve ReadFile tool description

0.17 (2025-09-29)

  • Fix step count in error message when exceeded max steps

  • Fix history file assertion error in kimi_run

  • Fix error handling in print mode and single command shell mode

  • Add retry for LLM API connection errors and timeout errors

  • Increase default max-steps-per-run to 100

0.16.0 (2025-09-26)

  • Add SendDMail tool (disabled in Kimi Koder, can be enabled in custom agent)

  • Session history file can be specified via _history_file parameter when creating a new session

0.15.0 (2025-09-26)

  • Improve tool robustness

0.14.0 (2025-09-25)

  • Add StrReplaceFile tool

  • Emphasize the use of the same language as the user

0.13.0 (2025-09-25)

  • Add SetTodoList tool

  • Add User-Agent in LLM API calls

  • Better system prompt and tool description

  • Better error messages for LLM

0.12.0 (2025-09-24)

  • Add print UI mode, which can be used via --ui print option

  • Add logging and --debug option

  • Catch EOF error for better experience

0.11.1 (2025-09-22)

  • Rename max_retry_per_step to max_retries_per_step

0.11.0 (2025-09-22)

  • Add /release-notes command

  • Add retry for LLM API errors

  • Add loop control configuration, e.g. {"loop_control": {"max_steps_per_run": 50, "max_retry_per_step": 3}}

  • Better extreme cases handling in read_file tool

  • Prevent Ctrl-C from exiting the CLI, force the use of Ctrl-D or exit instead

0.10.1 (2025-09-18)

  • Make slash commands look slightly better
  • Improve glob tool

0.10.0 (2025-09-17)

  • Add read_file tool

  • Add write_file tool

  • Add glob tool

  • Add task tool

  • Improve tool call visualization

  • Improve session management

  • Restore context usage when --continue a session

0.9.0 (2025-09-15)

  • Remove --session and --continue options

0.8.1 (2025-09-14)

  • Fix config model dumping

0.8.0 (2025-09-14)

  • Add shell tool and basic system prompt
  • Add tool call visualization
  • Add context usage count
  • Support interrupting the agent loop
  • Support project-level AGENTS.md
  • Support custom agent defined with YAML
  • Support oneshot task via kimi -c