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Kilo
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Weekly · Jan 8, 2026
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This Week at Kilo
Skills support, CLI image paste, free MiniMax M2.1, and more.
Here's everything you need to know.
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#1
OpenRouter
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750k+
Kilo Coders
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6.1T
Tokens/Month
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🧠 Agent Skills Have Landed
A lightweight, open format for extending AI agent capabilities
with specialized knowledge and workflows. Package domain
expertise, new capabilities, and repeatable workflows that
agents can use.
View documentation →
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📋 CLI Image Paste Support
Paste images directly into the CLI with Ctrl+V on macOS.
Images attach as [Image #N] and get sent with your messages. A
proper visual workflow without leaving the terminal.
npm install -g @kilocode/cli
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⚡ Minimum Balance Alerts
Organizations can now set low balance alerts to stay on top of
spending. Configure a minimum threshold and designated team
members get email notifications when your balance drops.
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✨ Chat Autocomplete Now Default
Ghost-text suggestions are now enabled by default as you
prompt Kilo. Plus, Codestral autocomplete now works with
HuggingFace, LiteLLM, LM Studio, and Ollama.
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Free Model
MiniMax M2.1 is Free in Kilo
The 230B parameter model is available free for a limited
time. With a massive 204K context window and efficient
Mixture-of-Experts architecture, M2.1 rivals Claude 3.5
Sonnet and Gemini 3 Pro in coding benchmarks.
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SWE-bench
74.0
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VIBE-Web
91.5
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Context
204K
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Try M2.1 Free →
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ZAI GLM-4.7
Enhanced "think before acting" for complex agent tasks.
42.8% on HLE benchmark.
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Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Now available via Vertex provider with minimal/medium
reasoning levels.
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The Kilo Show, Live!
Join Brian, Brendan and the Kilo Code team for The Kilo Show!
We're giving away $50 in credits to 5 lucky attendees. Bring your
questions and learn more about all of these updates.
Friday, January 9th at 18:00 CET / Noon Eastern / 9 AM Pacific.
Join Us →
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The Space Between AI Hype and AI Denial
There has been a lot of discourse over the extended winter
break about where AI is taking software engineering. Don't
fear it - stay curious!
Read the full blog →
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This Week's Contributors 🎉
@keeganwitt – Codestral
autocomplete expansion
@sebastiand-cerebras –
Cerebras maxTokens update
@Drilmo – Support Cmd+V
for pasting images on macOS in VSCode terminal
Want to contribute?
Check out the repo →
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CLI Contribution Bounty
Contribute to the Kilo CLI, Earn $150 in Credits
Try the Kilo CLI, contribute to the CLI via GitHub, and if
your contribution is merged, you will receive $150 Kilo Credits.
This promotion will run for 3 weeks.
How to Contribute →
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source coding agent.
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