Use Kimi in Kilo Code

Steps

1. 1
   Step 1.

   VS Code: open Settings (gear icon), go to the Providers tab, add Moonshot.ai and enter your API key. The extension stores this in your kilo.json config file.

2. 2
   Step 2.

   CLI: set the API key as an environment variable.

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   export MOONSHOT_API_KEY="your-api-key"

3. 3
   Step 3.

   Or configure it in ~/.config/kilo/kilo.json or ./kilo.json.

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   {
     "provider": {
       "moonshotai": {
         "env": ["MOONSHOT_API_KEY"],
       },
     },
   }

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   Step 4.

   Then set your default model. Kilo's docs example uses moonshotai/moonshot-v1-auto, which is discontinued; use the current Kimi K3 id instead.

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   {
     "model": "moonshotai/kimi-k3",
   }