Kimi Code as your coding agent

Kimi Code (kimi) is Moonshot AI’s terminal coding agent, built for the Kimi models. This guide installs it in a workspace, so it runs on your server and keeps working after you close the terminal.

You need: a workspace — see getting started — and a Kimi account.

Before you start: machine, skills, workspace

curl -fsSL https://mydevmachine.sh/install.sh | sh
devmachine setup
devmachine skills add
devmachine workspaces new acme
devmachine sync

Already have a machine? Skip setup. Already have the workspace? Skip the last two. See getting started for what each command does.

By hand

1. Add the package

devmachine packages add kimi-code --workspace acme
devmachine sync

sync runs Kimi’s own installer inside the workspace’s account. It puts kimi in ~/.kimi-code/bin and that folder on the PATH.

2. Sign in, once

devmachine login kimi --workspace acme

This runs kimi login in a real terminal. It prints a link and a short code: open the link on any device, enter the code, and approve. The terminal waits until you do. An account on kimi.ai rather than kimi.com signs in from the workspace with kimi login --region global.

3. Start working

devmachine ssh acme
cd ~/dev/my-project
kimi

You land inside tmux, so kimi keeps running when you close the terminal.

Skills

Kimi Code reads ~/.agents/skills, so every skill Devmachine installs there works without another step. On your computer, devmachine skills add --agent kimi does the same. See agent skills.

With your agent

Open a session on your own computer (devmachine skills add taught it the CLI) and say:

Install Kimi Code in my devmachine workspace acme.

The agent adds the kimi-code package and runs sync. Signing in stays yours: devmachine login kimi --workspace acme opens a real terminal for you to approve the code.

Check it: devmachine run --workspace acme -- kimi --version prints a version. Then start kimi in a project folder and ask it about the code.

Source: Kimi Code CLI, Kimi Code on GitHub