MetaEra's Kimi-CLI has been rebranded as Kimi-Code, fully aligned with the Claude Code architecture.

ME AI News, according to monitoring by Beating, Kimi-cli, the open-source terminal AI coding agent under Moonshot AI, is quietly undergoing repository migration and architectural refactoring, and has been officially renamed to kimi-code. To address performance bottlenecks in interaction response and execution efficiency in the original Python version, the development team has fully adopted the technical approach of Anthropic’s terminal tool Claude Code, completing a full architectural rewrite based on TypeScript and the Bun runtime, achieving millisecond-level cold starts and a smooth terminal user interface (TUI). This architectural shift signifies that Kimi has completely abandoned its original Python terminal stack and fully aligned with Claude Code’s mature solution. The tool uses Commander.js for command parsing and replaces Rich and prompt-toolkit with React Ink to implement a new responsive TUI. The refactoring involved 166 TypeScript source files and added over 38,000 lines of code. On the SWE-bench Verified benchmark, the TypeScript-refactored version based on the kimi-k2.5 model successfully resolved 317 out of 500 development tasks (a success rate of 63.4%), maintaining the performance level of the original Python version while significantly improving runtime stability and network-layer resilience. Beyond aligning with the underlying architecture, kimi-code has heavily refined human-AI collaboration experience. The new version not only supports dragging and dropping video assets such as screen recordings directly into the terminal for multimodal analysis but also deeply replicates key design features of Claude Code, including a “Plan Mode” with cursor-based interactive editing, commonly used Emacs shortcuts, a dual Ctrl + C quick-exit safety mechanism, and support for custom lifecycle hooks to integrate with automation workflows. In terms of multi-model ecosystem compatibility, kimi-code now allows custom integration of third-party large model APIs, enabling the tool to extend beyond the Kimi family and function as a unified terminal programming gateway across models. (Source: BlockBeats)