kimi-code license, foundation and stars
Agents and coding agents · MIT (open source) · backed by Moonshot AI · 7,666 stars
Kimi Code CLI, The Starting Point for Next-Gen Agents
License history
LICENSE fileMIT No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2026.
Latest release
No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).
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About and history
- Repository
- MoonshotAI/kimi-code · created May 22, 2026
- Website
- kimi.com/code/docs
- Language
- TypeScript
- Foundation
- None; run by Moonshot AI
- Company
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- GitHub detects
- MIT
- Stars per week
- From the second weekly snapshot
Weekly snapshots
| Week of | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | 7,666 |
Changes
| What changed | |
|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | TrackedAdded: MoonshotAI/kimi-code |