Definition
Plain language
A command-line coding assistant built around the Kimi model family.
As stated in the literature
Terminal agent harness for Moonshot's Kimi models; included in the paper's six-harness evaluation.
Also called: Kimi-CLI
Why it matters: It is one of the terminal coding agents where questions about which text counts as an instruction play out in real developer workflows.
For example, a developer types a request in their terminal and Kimi CLI reads project files and runs commands to carry it out.