kilo

Kilo

Agent ID: kilo

Kilo is a coding agent that proxies 500+ models via models.dev. Speaks ACP natively via kilo acp.

Install

npm install -g @kilocode/cli
kilo auth login --provider <id>
# or: export KILO_API_KEY="your-api-key"

See kilocode.ai for supported providers and setup instructions.

Quick Start

import { agents } from "@pivanov/agents-wire";

const result = await agents.ask(
  "kilo",
  "Explain this codebase",
  {
    permission: "auto-allow",
  },
);

console.log(result.text);

Model Selection

Kilo proxies 500+ models via models.dev. Use listAvailableModels() to get the live list (calls kilo models under the hood):

import { definitionFor } from "@pivanov/agents-wire/catalog";

const def = definitionFor("kilo");
const models = (await def.listAvailableModels?.()) ?? def.models ?? [];

// models is IAgentModelOption[] - provider/model pairs from models.dev
console.log(models.map((m) => m.id));
// e.g. ["anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-7", "openai/gpt-5", ...]

The static catalog shows a "Default" placeholder before kilo models can be called. options.model is sent via ACP setSessionConfigOption (best-effort). Effort kind varies per upstream model - check IAgentModelOption.effort on each entry.

Capabilities

Feature	Supported
ask / stream / session	✅
askJson	✅
MCP stdio	✅
MCP http/sse	❌
Session listing (listSessions)	❌
Tool call interception	✅

Cost Tracking

Cost reporting depends on the upstream model and provider. Token-priced models report per-turn costUsd. Check result.cost and session.cost.snapshot.totalUsd to see what is available for your configured provider.

Auth Failure Detection

If KILO_API_KEY is missing or kilo auth login has not been run, the SDK catches the authentication-failure pattern in stderr and throws AgentUnauthenticatedError.

Gotchas