CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Unreleased

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)

Changed

• Improve UI look and feel
• Improve Task tool observability

0.49 (2025-11-06)

Fixed

• Minor UX improvements

0.48 (2025-11-06)

Added

• Support Kimi K2 thinking mode

0.47 (2025-11-05)

Fixed

• 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)

Added

• Introduce Wire over stdio for local IPC (experimental, subject to change)
• Support Anthropic provider type

Fixed

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

0.45 (2025-10-31)

Added

• Allow KIMI_MODEL_CAPABILITIES environment variable to override model capabilities
• Add --no-markdown option to disable markdown rendering
• Support openai_responses LLM provider type

Fixed

• Fix crash when continuing a session

0.44 (2025-10-30)

Changed

• Improve startup time

Fixed

• Fix potential invalid bytes in user input

0.43 (2025-10-30)

Added

• 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

Fixed

• Ensure new line after executing shell commands

0.42 (2025-10-28)

Added

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

Changed

• Change mode switch shortcut from Ctrl-K to Ctrl-X
• Improve overall robustness

Fixed

• Fix ACP server no attribute error

0.41 (2025-10-26)

Fixed

• Fix a bug for Glob tool when no matching files are found
• Ensure reading files with UTF-8 encoding

Changed

• Disable reading command/query from stdin in shell mode
• Clarify the API platform selection in /setup meta command

0.40 (2025-10-24)

Added

• Support ESC key to interrupt the agent loop

Fixed

• Fix SSL certificate verification error in some rare cases
• Fix possible decoding error in Bash tool

0.39 (2025-10-24)

Fixed

• 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)

Fixed

• Fix update checking

0.36 (2025-10-24)

Added

• 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

Fixed

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

0.35 (2025-10-22)

Changed

• 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)

Added

• 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)

Added

• Add /version meta command
• Add raw shell mode, which can be switched to by Ctrl-K
• Show shortcuts in bottom status line

Fixed

• Fix logging redirection
• Merge duplicated input histories

0.32 (2025-10-16)

Added

• Add bottom status line
• Support file path auto-completion (@filepath)

Fixed

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

0.31 (2025-10-14)

Fixed

• Fix step interrupting by Ctrl-C, for real

0.30 (2025-10-14)

Added

• Add /compact meta command to allow manually compacting context

Fixed

• Fix /clear meta command when context is empty

0.29 (2025-10-14)

Added

• 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

Fixed

• Fix step interrupting by Ctrl-C

Changed

• Disable SendDMail tool in Kimi Koder agent

0.28 (2025-10-13)

Added

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

Fixed

• Fix ReadFile output

0.27 (2025-10-11)

Added

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

Changed

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

0.26 (2025-10-11)

Fixed

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

0.25 (2025-10-11)

Changed

• 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)

Fixed

• Fix ACP cancel method

0.23 (2025-10-09)

Added

• 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)

Changed

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

0.21 (2025-10-09)

Added

• 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

Changed

• Better-looking /release-notes
• Improve tool descriptions
• Improve tool output truncation

0.20 (2025-09-30)

Added

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

0.19 (2025-09-29)

Added

• Support piped stdin for print UI
• Support --input-format=stream-json for piped JSON input

Fixed

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

0.18 (2025-09-29)

Added

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

Improved

• Improve ReadFile tool description

0.17 (2025-09-29)

Fixed

• 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

Changed

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

0.16.0 (2025-09-26)

Tools

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

SDK

• 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)

Added

• Add StrReplaceFile tool

Improved

• Emphasize the use of the same language as the user

0.13.0 (2025-09-25)

Added

• Add SetTodoList tool
• Add User-Agent in LLM API calls

Improved

• Better system prompt and tool description
• Better error messages for LLM

0.12.0 (2025-09-24)

Added

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

Changed

• Catch EOF error for better experience

0.11.1 (2025-09-22)

Changed

• Rename max_retry_per_step to max_retries_per_step

0.11.0 (2025-09-22)

Added

• 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}}

Changed

• 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)

Added

• Add read_file tool
• Add write_file tool
• Add glob tool
• Add task tool

Changed

• 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