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Kilo Code for VS Code - Open-source, lightning speed autonomous AI coding agent

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Kilo AI is an AI-powered extension for VS Code which writes, fixes and improves your code through simple chat. Tuned with the fastest models we could find, it can create and modify files, run command line prompts, and much more.

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Hey PH!


It’s clear that the closer we’re getting to AGI, the closer we’re getting to a future where all humans are shaping our digital worlds directly. Gone are the days of thinking of code line by line, we’ll have AI agents producing code “by the kilo”. With Kilo Code, we’re humbly throwing our hat in the ring with a new AI agent.

There are already a million AI agent companies out there, why another one? Simple: we’re an impatient bunch. We believe that by an extreme focus on speed (speed of building features, speed of growing our team, speed of experimentation, speed of the product itself), we can quickly add value.

We’ve been living this extreme focus on speed already:

  • Two weeks ago, I dropped everything in my life to build the first version.

  • By now we’ve assembled a team of 10.

  • Day one, we forked the VSCode extension (which itself is a fork of ).

  • Since then, we shipped 10 small improvements.

  • Made the .

  • By tomorrow, we’ll have fixed two of .

  • Next week, we’ll do 10 more improvements.

The goal is to create the most user-friendly AI coding agent, as quickly as possible.


Most importantly, we want to build this with you. We would love your continuous feedback (here but also on Github and Discord), and we have a free tier (with $20 in free tokens!) in order to thank you—and for the best feedback we’ll give out more free tokens.

Check the homepage for up to date information on how to get access to the free tier.

All the best for the launch & team!

Maker

Thank you  !

Love this, Justin! The fact you're prioritising speed is a big plus in my book. This is going to be really useful for a lot of devs!

Maker

Thank you ! We are doing our best to get all the fastest models integrated so we can get a quick feedback loop.

 hey! quick update: the team just shipped the biggest release to the VS Code extension since launch. includes parallel agents, diff reviewer, and multi-model comparisons.

This will speed up coding significantly! 😄

Maker
looking forward to seeing what you build with it Jun Shen!

 yes! and the team just got one step forward with a new VS Code extension since launch: parallel agents, diff reviewer, multi-model comparisons, and more.

nice, going to give this a spin

I love how Kilo Code is focusing on speed—it's exciting to see such rapid progress and improvements! With the goal of making AI coding agents more user-friendly, how do you see the product evolving to cater to different types of developers and their specific workflows?

Maker

Hey  we currently have some different modes that people can choose, for example Architect mode will start planning out the changes to be done from a more high level perspective before starting to implement. We'd love to add some more of these, get them tailored to different groups, but also try and figure out exactly what the current preferences in the code base are and make sure the AI agent adheres to that. What specific workflows are you focussed on?

Great addition!

 there's more! the team recently shipped a new VS Code extension, with parallel agents, inline diff reviewer, and multi-model comparisons.

Complete bullshit - they promised $15. I registered and nothing. Scam. $0 in the profile and constantly gives red error messages for me to pay them money. Scam!

Maker

 Very sorry about this—we were idiots and thought that requiring a Google account would be enough but dispel abuse, but apparently those are sold on shady websites for a few cents.. So as a temporary measure over the weekend you have to post in Discord, and we'll give you the $15 in free credits. We'll implement something more sustainable this week!

Maker

 Hello Dan,


We had a crazy amount of requests on launch day, but I checked your profile and added the $15 credit to your account! If you run into any issues, just let me know and I’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again.

How is it different from Roo Code? What additional features have you added and what have you improved?
Maker

 So far we've focused on an easier onboarding flow (our own proxy for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and UI cleanup), and some bug fixes. Our next goal is to become a superset of both Roo and Cline (so add in features from Cline).

TL,DR: remains actively maintained, fully open-source (Apache-2.0), and recently rebuilt on the OpenCode server. See a (honest) feature comparison here:

FWIW they recently launched a new extension, with parallel agents, inline diff reviews, and multi-comparison. Someone commented:

Came from Roo Code a few months ago and honestly haven't looked back. The migration was smoother than expected.

See launch here:

hope it helps ✌️

Do you have any plans to introduce this on Pycharm? Most AI extensions don't seem to work too well there
Maker

 For now we're sticking with VS Code, but we've heard this request a few times. Added it here:

 quick update: added support for all 11 IDEs few months ago. enjoy!

 Great, I'll check it out. Thanks for letting me know!

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