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2026-06-10 moonshot

Kimi Code CLI Goes Open Source: Moonshot Is After the Developer's Default Entry Point, Not Another Coding Tool

Models get price-compared and swapped out. Owning the terminal coding agent, the runtime, is how you own distribution. An MIT-licensed CLI that can run non-Kimi models is Moonshot's open play to shift from selling models to selling the workflow entry point.

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2026-06-10 moonshot

Kimi Code CLI's Subagents Turn Coding Agents Into a Structured Workflow

Kimi Code CLI's built-in coder, explore, and plan subagents matter because they split agentic programming into roles: understand, plan, implement, and report, instead of wrapping a model in a shell.

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2026-06-10 moonshot

Kimi Code CLI's Value Is the Terminal Loop, and So Is Its Risk

Kimi Code CLI puts code edits, shell commands, web fetching, and planning into one terminal workflow. That loop can make developers faster, but it also makes permissions, audit, and supervision central.

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