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Template v1.0 2026-09-12 — As of Kimi Code v0.42.0

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September 2026 v0.42.0 – v2.0.2 6 releases

Kimi Code v2.0.2 2026-09-19

  • FIX/resume — new messages no longer land at an old position in the conversation after resuming a session
  • FIX/compact — no longer fails after switching to a model with a smaller context window
  • CHGthe agent no longer assumes the current working directory is the project root
  • FIXa message sent while the agent was running no longer sometimes appears twice in the chat

Kimi Code v2.0.1 2026-09-18

  • ADD[watch] / KIMI_CODE_WATCH — disable filesystem watchers for local.toml, AGENTS.md, skills and MCP config entirely
  • CHG[providers."<id>"] — api_key_env names an environment variable to read the API key from, as an alternative to api_key
  • ADD[database] — searchSyncSessionCap / searchSyncDebounceMs tune the incremental background search-sync pass (marked unverified — not yet in the config reference)
  • CHG/yolo / -y, --yolo — Ask When Needed no longer prompts for a Bash command that cannot be statically analyzed
  • CHGkimi install-app — renamed to kimi install-desktop; the old name keeps working as a hidden alias

Kimi Code v2.0.0 2026-09-17

  • ADD/desktop / /install-desktop — opens the Kimi Code desktop app page in your browser
  • ADDkimi install-app — prints and opens the desktop app page (renamed to kimi install-desktop in 2.0.1)
  • ADD[markdown].mermaid — renders fenced mermaid code blocks in the terminal as diagrams (marked unverified — not yet in the config reference)

Kimi Code v0.43.1 2026-09-15

  • CHG/copy — native clipboard write path for Linux X11 sessions
  • FIXCtrl-C while subagents are running now interrupts only the subagents, instead of exiting the whole CLI

Kimi Code v0.43.0 2026-09-14

  • ADD/sessions — Ctrl-X then y deletes the selected session from the picker
  • ADDkimi upgrade / kimi update — -y, --yes skips the confirmation prompt and installs directly
  • ADDloop_control.compaction_max_attempts — caps total attempts for a failing compaction request; default 5
  • ADDKIMI_CODE_PERMISSION_MODE_REMINDER env var — set to 0 to stop injecting auto permission-mode reminders into the model context
  • CHGCtrl-S — a steering message can now interrupt a wait for a background task
  • CHG/goal — the time budget no longer counts time spent with the session closed, and the 24-hour limit is removed

Kimi Code v0.42.0 2026-09-09

  • ADDcard-keys — initial reference: the seven keyboard-shortcut contexts, from general input to the approval panel (19 rows)
  • ADDcard-slash-core — initial reference: account, session, mode and status commands with their aliases (33 rows)
  • ADDcard-slash-tools — initial reference: swarm and goal control, extensibility, and the built-in skill commands (16 rows)
  • ADDcard-cli — initial reference: all 14 top-level flags and all 12 subcommands (25 rows)
  • ADDcard-settings — initial reference: config.toml, tui.toml and .kimi-code/local.toml (37 rows)
  • ADDcard-env — initial reference: core paths, model overrides, runtime switches and diagnostics (22 rows)
  • ADDcard-skills — initial reference: skill and agent directories, the four AGENTS.md locations, plugins (18 rows)
  • ADDcard-hooks — initial reference: 18 hook events, hook exit codes, mcp.json and MCP permissions (20 rows)
  • DELKIMI_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_REMOTE_CONTROL and KIMI_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_SECONDARY_MODEL — Remote Control and the subagent model pool are always on in 0.42.0, so both flags were removed
  • CHG[database] replaces the experimental minidb flags; the read model and search worker are now controlled by KIMI_CODE_PERSISTENCE_MINIDB_READMODEL and KIMI_CODE_SEARCH_WORKER
  • ADD[read] — configurable character limits and resumable long-line file reads, replacing repeated output truncation
  • CHGCtrl-O — finished tool calls collapse to a header plus one outcome row; hidden output is counted and revealed here

Template / Structure

  • ADDv1.0 — template derived from claude-code-placemat v1.2
  • CHGPer-agent localStorage keys (pm-kimi-code-seen-version, pm-kimi-code-collapsed); theme and density stay shared across every placemat on this origin