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When AI coding assistants are no longer limited to graphical interfaces but instead delve into the command line, the battlefield developers are most familiar with, an efficiency revolution is quietly unfolding in the terminal. Moonshot AI recently officially launched the open-source tool Kimi CLI, a command-line coding tool that integrates intelligent agents with traditional Shell operations. It is now in the technical preview phase, with its code open-sourced on GitHub, and is immediately available to developers around the world.
The core innovation of Kimi CLI lies in its "dual-mode interaction" design. The interface adopts the familiar Shell style, preserving the efficiency and simplicity of original command lines; at the same time, by using the shortcut key Ctrl-K, users can switch to the "intelligent agent mode" with one click. In this mode, Kimi can understand context, automatically complete complex commands, explain error messages, and even generate scripts based on natural language instructions. The two modes switch seamlessly, meeting the needs of experienced users for control while providing intelligent guidance for beginners, truly achieving "human-computer collaborative programming."
More notably, Kimi CLI natively supports the ACP (Agent Communication Protocol) protocol, which means it not only runs independently in the terminal but also can interact with various graphical clients that support ACP (such as IDE plugins or desktop applications), breaking down the barriers between the command line and visual development environments, and building a unified AI development experience.
As Moonshot AI's first open-source attempt in the developer tools field, Kimi CLI reflects its product philosophy of "integrating AI into developers' workflows rather than replacing them." The official team stated that in the future, they will continue to iterate based on community feedback, enhancing multi-language support, context memory, and security sandbox capabilities.
Currently, the project documentation is available, and the GitHub repository is open for contributions. For developers who spend their days working with terminals, Kimi CLI is not just a new tool, but a new paradigm of more natural and efficient AI programming — here, intelligence is not an interruption, but a silent collaborator.
Project address: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-cli