Use Kimi in Zed

Steps

1. 1
   Step 1.

   Open Agent Settings (agent::OpenSettings), click Add Provider in the LLM Providers section, and fill in provider name, API URL (https://api.moonshot.ai/v1), model ID (kimi-k3) and context window. Or configure it in your settings file as below.

2. 2
   Step 2.

   Add the provider to settings.json. This combines Zed's documented openai_compatible schema with Kimi's base URL, model id and 1M context window.

   JSON

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   {
     "language_models": {
       "openai_compatible": {
         "moonshot": {
           "api_url": "https://api.moonshot.ai/v1",
           "available_models": [
             {
               "name": "kimi-k3",
               "display_name": "Kimi K3",
               "max_tokens": 1048576,
               "reasoning_effort": "max",
               "capabilities": {
                 "tools": true,
                 "images": false,
                 "parallel_tool_calls": false,
                 "prompt_cache_key": false,
                 "chat_completions": true,
                 "interleaved_reasoning": true,
                 "max_tokens_parameter": false
               }
             }
           ]
         }
       }
     }
   }

3. 3
   Step 3.

   Enter the API key in the provider settings UI, or set the generated environment variable (provider ID in upper snake case plus _API_KEY). Do not put API keys in settings.json.

   Terminal

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   export MOONSHOT_API_KEY=<your Kimi API key>