Kimi Code evolved from version 0.8.0 to 0.20.2 in June with major additions to agent capabilities, IDE integration, and web-based interfaces.
Agent and Automation
- Goal mode and queuing: Multi-turn reasoning across interactions with /goal next to queue tasks sequentially and review them interactively.
- Agent swarms: Run coordinated agent swarms with live progress tracking and automatic rate-limit handling via /swarm.
- Background task management: Move long-running commands to background with Ctrl+B and inspect them through /tasks panel.
- Shell mode: Execute shell commands directly within sessions.
IDE and Protocol Support
- Agent Client Protocol 0.23: IDEs like Zed and JetBrains AI Chat can now drive coding sessions directly over stdio.
- Anthropic-compatible protocol: Support for managed deployments including video input capabilities.
Interface and Workflow
- Web UI and server: New server-hosted web interface accessible via kimi server and kimi web commands with instant session search.
- Session visualizer: Built-in kimi vis command launches a browser-based visualizer to inspect local sessions with custom port and deep-linking.
- All-sessions picker: View sessions across directories with name search, pagination, and clipboard-ready resume commands.
- Workspace directory inclusion: Add extra directories to sessions with /add-dir and save them for your project.
Several other features were also released this month but are not listed here.