kimi-code/AGENTS.md

Repository-level Agent Guide

Reply in the same language as the user.

This is a TypeScript monorepo built for agent-assisted development. Keep the root AGENTS.md limited to hot-path rules: the project map, hard constraints, and workflow requirements — things every task needs to know.

Working Principles

• Think from first principles. Start from real requirements, code facts, and verification results; if the goal is unclear, discuss it with the user first.
• Treat code, not documentation, as the source of truth. Unless the user explicitly says otherwise, do not read ordinary Markdown just to understand the implementation.
• Before making code changes, read the relevant code and the most recent constraints, and follow the nearest AGENTS.md in the directory tree.
• Keep changes focused. Do not slip in unrelated refactors along the way.
• When committing, do not add any co-author attribution, and do not reveal the identity of the agent in commit messages, PR descriptions, or any explanatory text.

Project Map

• apps/kimi-code: the CLI / TUI application. It consumes core capabilities through @moonshot-ai/kimi-code-sdk and must not depend directly on @moonshot-ai/agent-core. When writing or modifying its terminal UI, use the write-tui skill (.agents/skills/write-tui/SKILL.md).
• apps/kimi-web: the browser web UI, a peer to the TUI. Vue 3 + Vite + vue-i18n; talks to the server over REST + WebSocket under /api/v1. It must not depend on @moonshot-ai/agent-core (wire types are re-implemented locally). Debug against the two engines via the root pnpm dev:v1 / pnpm dev:v2 backend scripts — the dev Sidebar shows the active backend and switches it at runtime. See apps/kimi-web/AGENTS.md.
• apps/vis, apps/vis/server, apps/vis/web: visual debugging tools for sessions and replays.
• apps/kimi-inspect: web inspector for the kap-server /api/v1/debug RPC surface — workspace/session browser, per-session chat, and Service panels (data + trigger buttons) for the Session and Agent scopes. Built on its own old-klient-style channel layer (src/channel/: the VS Code ProxyChannel model — service-bound IChannel, HTTP ProxyChannel for calls routed to /api/v1/debug), typed by agent-core-v2 Service interfaces; GET /api/v1/debug/channels loads the whole wire protocol 1:1 (every scoped Service, no whitelist). There is no Service-event push channel: panels fetch/refresh on demand (Sidebar polls react-query on a 15 s interval), and a connection failure shows a blocking "Debug surface unavailable" screen instead of falling back anywhere. The Vite dev server proxies /api to a running kap-server (KIMI_SERVER_URL, default http://127.0.0.1:58627) and exposes GET /__inspect/servers (vite/serverDiscovery.ts), which scans the local kap-server instance registry (~/.kimi-code/server/instances + legacy lock) and the home token so the app can zero-config auto-connect and switch servers from the header dropdown at runtime. The per-session chat (src/components/ChatView.tsx) renders turn-granularly from the transcript surface instead of context memory: full state is read from GET /api/v1/sessions/{id}/transcript (initial load = newest page, refreshes re-read from the tail backwards, "load earlier" pages with before_turn), while /api/v1/ws is a delta-only channel (transcript.ops, grade delta; transcript.reset is ignored). Convergence reuses @moonshot-ai/transcript's L2 reducer (src/transcript/: REST/WS clients + store; the data model and reducer come from the package, nothing is re-implemented locally).
• packages/agent-core: the unified agent engine, including Agent, Session, profile, skills, tools, plan, permission, background, records, the in-process DI service layer (src/services/), and other core capabilities.
• packages/node-sdk: the public TypeScript SDK and harness.
• packages/kosong: the LLM / provider abstraction layer.
• packages/kaos: the execution environment and file/process abstractions.
• packages/oauth: Kimi OAuth and managed auth utilities.
• packages/telemetry: shared client-side telemetry infrastructure.
• packages/transcript: the isomorphic transcript rendering data layer — agent-granular L1 store, idempotent L2 operations, off/turn/block/delta L3 subscription granularity, framework-free L4 view registry, and turn-cursor pagination. Pure TypeScript (browser-safe, no engine imports) and the sole owner of all transcript wire types; consumed by packages/kap-server (engine events → transcript, REST + WS surface; live stores backfill history from the persisted per-agent wire records — main on first attach, any agent on demand, cold sessions rebuild any agent — with 0-based turn ordinals matching the engine's).
• packages/kap-server: the Kimi Code server, backed by the DI × Scope agent engine (@moonshot-ai/agent-core-v2). Exposes sessions over REST + WebSocket (/api/v1 + /api/v1/ws); bootstrapped from src/start.ts and consumed by apps/kimi-code. The RPC surface is /api/v1/debug/* — a reflection dispatcher over the ENTIRE scoped DI registry (every Service callable, no whitelist; src/transport/registerDebugRoutes.ts + serviceDispatcherRoutes.ts), mounted only with --debug-endpoints on a loopback bind and gated by the global bearer auth; repo dev scripts pass the flag.
• packages/klient: the client SDK — a contract-driven facade over agent-core-v2 with aggregated global.* / session(id).* / agent(id).* methods, zod validation on every call, and klient-level typed event forwarding. Transport is chosen once at creation via subpath entry (@moonshot-ai/klient/ipc|memory); both return the same Klient. The package also hosts the e2e suites: the legacy /api/v1 live suites (test/e2e/legacy/) and the docker e2e runner (pnpm --filter @moonshot-ai/klient docker:e2e). See packages/klient/AGENTS.md.
• packages/server-e2e: live e2e tests and scenarios against a running server (KIMI_SERVER_URL, default http://127.0.0.1:58627). See packages/server-e2e/AGENTS.md.

Environment Requirements

• Node.js: >=24.15.0 (from the root package.json engines; .nvmrc is 24.15.0, used by nvm / fnm / mise to pick the minimum recommended version).
• pnpm: 10.33.0 (from the root package.json packageManager).
• pnpm install will fail when the Node version is not satisfied, because .npmrc sets engine-strict=true.

Monorepo Workspace Maintenance

• pnpm-workspace.yaml is the source of truth for workspace membership, but flake.nix also contains hardcoded workspacePaths and workspaceNames lists.
• Whenever you add or remove a workspace package, you MUST update both pnpm-workspace.yaml and flake.nix — for every package, including leaf / test / e2e packages that nothing depends on.
  • pnpm-workspace.yaml uses globs (packages/*, apps/*), so most packages land there automatically; flake.nix is fully manual and is where omissions happen.
  • Missing a path in flake.nix's workspacePaths will silently drop files from the Nix build's src fileset.
  • Missing a name in flake.nix's workspaceNames will break pnpmConfigHook because dependencies for that workspace will not be fetched.
• The automated "Check flake.nix workspace sync" (scripts/check-nix-workspace.mjs) only validates the transitive dependency closure of @moonshot-ai/kimi-code. A leaf package outside that closure (e.g. an e2e package nobody imports) slips through even when it is missing from flake.nix. A green check is therefore NOT proof that flake.nix is fully in sync — keep it updated by hand on every add/remove, do not rely on the check to catch omissions.

General Coding Rules

• For optional object properties, pass undefined directly instead of using conditional spread.
  • YES: { user }
  • NO: { ...(user ? { user } : undefined) }
• Optional object properties do not need to additionally allow undefined in the type.
  • YES: interface Options { user?: User }
  • NO: interface Options { user?: User | undefined }
• Internal methods with only a single parameter should not be turned into options objects just for stylistic uniformity.
• Except for a package's index.ts, other index.ts files should prefer export * from './module';.
• The Agent class in packages/agent-core/src/agent must be usable on its own. The constructor must not force the caller to create a Session instance, nor require an agentId or session. It may accept an optional sessionId as a request-config hint — for example mapped to the provider's prompt_cache_key — but the instance must not hold sessionId, and must not depend on the Session lifecycle, metadata, or parent/child relationship logic.
• Do not add too many new test files. Prefer adding tests to the existing test file of the corresponding component or module.
• When a test fails because of a user modification, default to fixing the test first; do not change the implementation to satisfy an old test unless the implementation truly has a bug.
• Do not sacrifice code quality for external compatibility unless the user explicitly asks for it. Breaking changes go through changesets and a major bump, gated by the rule below.

Experimental Features

• Gate a not-yet-public feature behind an experimental flag. Add the flag to the registry at packages/agent-core/src/flags/registry.ts, then check it with flags.enabled('my-feature'). Flags are env-driven and default off: KIMI_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_<NAME> toggles one, KIMI_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_FLAG enables all. Release by flipping the entry's default to true.

Where to Update Instructions

• Hard rules that affect almost every task: update the root AGENTS.md.
• Rules that only affect a specific directory: update the nearest sub-directory AGENTS.md.
• Keep instruction updates focused and supported by code facts.

Workflow Requirements

• Prefer rg / rg --files when reading code.
• When designing changes, follow existing boundaries and local patterns first.
• In public text and test data, replace real internal identifiers with neutral placeholders such as example.com, example.test, and YOUR_API_KEY. Before opening a PR, ask a read-only agent to audit the diff for context-specific internal identifiers.
• When creating a PR, the PR title must follow Conventional Commit style, e.g. chore: remove legacy format commands.
• When an AI agent opens or updates a PR, fill in .github/pull_request_template.md — link the related issue or explain the problem, then describe what changed. Do not leave placeholder text or submit a generic summary of the diff.
• Do not submit vague AI-generated PR text. The human author must understand the change well enough to explain the code, edge cases, and why the approach fits this repository.
• After finishing a task and before submitting a PR, you must run the gen-changesets skill (see .agents/skills/gen-changesets/SKILL.md) and generate a changeset under .changeset/ according to its rules.
• When generating a changeset, never decide on a major bump on your own. When you judge a change to meet the major criteria (breaking changes, incompatible user configuration, renamed or removed commands/arguments, changed behavior semantics, etc.), you must stop and explain it to the user and ask for confirmation. Only write major after the user has explicitly agreed. Otherwise default to minor (and fall back to patch if minor is unclear). See the "Hard rule: confirm with the user before writing major" section in .agents/skills/gen-changesets/SKILL.md for details.
• Prefer importing via import ... from '#/...', which serves the same purpose as import ... from '@/...'.
• Do not commit throwaway scratch or exploratory files. Never stage:
  • Agent working notes or handoff/summary documents (e.g. HANDOVER-*.md, HANDOFF-*.md, handoff.md).
  • Throwaway UI/UX prototypes or design mockups (e.g. *-designs.html, *-mockup.html, *-demo(s).html) at the repo root or under a design/ folder. The only tracked .html files should be Vite index.html entrypoints. Before committing or opening a PR, run git status and git diff --staged --stat and remove anything matching these patterns. Put scratch work under .tmp/ (gitignored) instead of the repo root or the source tree.