Moonshot AI

Kimi CLI shipped a dead-end streak force-stop, plugin .zip URL installs, and a project rename to Kimi Code, alongside shell and core refinements.

Successor branding and upgrade path added. The project was renamed to Kimi CLI in documentation, with guidance added pointing users toward the Kimi Code CLI successor.

Windows shell rewritten to Git Bash. The Windows backend switched from PowerShell to Git Bash, giving Windows users POSIX semantics matching Linux and macOS behavior. Hallucinated CMD-style 2>nul redirects are rewritten to 2>/dev/null to prevent spurious file creation.

Attention and permission modes separated. --yolo bypasses permission approvals while the user remains present; --afk handles away-from-keyboard sessions by auto-dismissing questions. Flags are independent in the status bar.

Alias and session commands refined. Slash command alias resolution added — /h, ?, and status now resolve to canonical commands. /clear starts a fresh session like /new. Welcome tips display styled text, and the /usage alias registration was corrected.

Core reliability and reasoning improvements. Session history is replayed on load for ACP context. MCP connections close on shutdown, and TTY no longer hangs on exit. Completion budget uses remaining context. Empty-string reasoning_content is preserved, and Kimi reasoning effort is no longer sent implicitly.

Shell polish and reliability fixes. Visual spacing was restored across tool call results, content blocks, and error panels. OAuth token rotation races were resolved, with MCP tokens persisted to ~/.kimi/mcp-oauth/. Repeated-tool-call reminders escalate and force-stop on a dead-end streak. Plugins can be installed from a .zip URL. CVE-2026-25990 was patched by bumping pillow to 12.2.0.