Event-Triggered Agent Automations

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Summary:
Request to introduce event-driven automation capabilities to Kilo Code, enabling the AI agent to perform automated actions in response to specific IDE or file system events.

Description:
Kilo Code currently excels as an AI coding assistant within VS Code, providing valuable planning, building, and code-fixing support during interactive sessions. However, it lacks a system for automating actions based on IDE events (such as saving, editing, or creating files). This limits its ability to streamline workflows and automate routine, repetitive tasks that could be handled autonomously in the background.

Proposed Feature:

• Event Triggers: Allow users to define triggers based on common IDE/file events (e.g., file created, file saved, file deleted, code committed).
• Agent Actions: Configure the AI to execute custom or pre-defined actions automatically when events occur, such as:
  • Regenerating or updating documentation.
  • Running or updating unit tests after relevant code changes.
  • Enforcing code formatting and project-specific standards.
  • Creating git commit messages.
• Natural Language Configuration: Let users specify trigger conditions and actions using plain English descriptions rather than requiring scripting.
• Customizability: Integration with existing “Custom Rules” so that rules can be linked to triggers, further enhancing automation flexibility.

Example Use Cases:

• Automatically update documentation when API files are changed.
• Enforce code linting/formatting immediately upon file save.
• Alert the developer or execute AI-powered code reviews after each commit or pull request.

Benefits:

• Reduces repetitive manual tasks.
• Boosts productivity by automating quality and compliance checks.
• Enables truly autonomous background workflows for sophisticated development pipelines.

Rationale:
This feature would bridge the gap between interactive and autonomous coding support in Kilo Code, enhancing its competitiveness and usability—especially for workflows requiring continuous integration, testing, or documentation synchronization.

Reference Implementation:
This request is inspired by the "Agent Hooks" feature in the agentic IDE Kiro. Their implementation serves as an excellent example of how an AI agent can be triggered by file-system events to autonomously manage tasks like updating unit tests, syncing documentation, and enforcing coding standards directly within the development environment. Reviewing Kiro's approach could provide a valuable blueprint for this feature.