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Kimi CLI's first published release

Moonshot AI · · Coding harness

Moonshot AI published Kimi CLI, an Apache-2.0 terminal agent written in Python that drives the Kimi models against a local codebase. It was renamed Kimi Code CLI in January 2026 and later rewritten in TypeScript.

Why it matters

Moonshot's entry into first-party terminal agents. The date is the earliest release Moonshot published, not the day the tool first existed — the tag is numbered 0.33, so earlier versions shipped untagged and the true first availability is earlier than this record can establish.

This is LLM World's historical reading, not a claim by Moonshot AI. The facts above and the sources below are what it rests on.

Sources

Record status: partly verified · confidence 45/100

The weakest dating method used in this batch, and stated plainly: the date is the published_at of the earliest GitHub release on Moonshot's own repository (tag 0.33, published 2025-10-21T04:35:46Z). That tag is numbered 0.33, so versions 0.01 through 0.32 existed and were never published as GitHub releases — the true first public availability is earlier than this date, not later. The repository was created 15 October 2025, which is not used. Moonshot's platform changelog mentions Kimi CLI only once, on 2025-10-27 ('更新 kimi cli 支持文档' — 'updated the Kimi CLI support docs'), which corroborates that the tool was public by late October but does not date its launch. I found no Moonshot announcement post. Do not publish this without a company statement; it is included because the alternative is leaving Moonshot's first harness out of the timeline entirely.