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#AI#CLI#LLM#tool

KiloCode is an editor extension and CLI for AI-driven development. Also supporting coding agents.

It can be used centrally, with an KiloCode account or in a bring-your-own-API-keys manner, e. g. by providing API keys to Claude, ChatGPT or Mistral.

DEPRECATED: The config is located at: /home/<username>/.kilocode/cli/config.json
For the CLI: ~/.config/kilo/kilo.json

Config example for Mistral AI:

"provider": "mistral", 
"mistralApiKey": "", 
"apiModelId": "codestral-latest"

Basic commands

/model list to see all available models

CLI

The CLI can be configured differently than the IDE plugin.

Create a config file in ~/.config/kilo/kilo.json.
In the latest versions, the mcp-Object in this config file is 100 % compatible with opencode, thus one can copy over the mcp servers.

Models

Full overview of models can be seen here: https://kilo.ai/leaderboard#all-models