kimi-code

kimi-code is a skill for Claude Code from amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,488 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of claude-code, MIT.

A tool for handing large coding tasks to Kimi Code CLI, a command-line program that can work on a codebase in a separate session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for multi-file features, migrations, refactors, test suites, autonomous coding loops, and broad codebase exploration.
Why use it?
It keeps lengthy implementation and exploration work in a separate context, which is useful when a task has several stages or requires repeated iterations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it for multi-file features, migrations, refactors, test suites, autonomous coding loops…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills/kimi-code
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills --skill kimi-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,488 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00076 $0.01488
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00744
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00149

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0892cdd21509, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kimi-code scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to claude-code — 52 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/kimi-code/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kimi Code CLI (subagent/task delegation)

Use Kimi Code CLI to run a separate long-horizon pass over the repo: multi-step implementation, broad refactors, batch file writes, or deep exploration—similar to handing a task to a subagent. You stay orchestrator: smaller prompts, less context burn.

When to use Kimi Code CLI

  • Large or multi-step work: several files, phases, or checkpoints (feature slice, migration, test suite, docs sweep).
  • Heavy code generation or editing: Kimi Code drives tool use while you summarize outcomes and merge.
  • Ralph Loop: Specialized autonomous loop mode for complex task iteration.
  • Parallel mental lane: you continue planning or reviewing while Kiro runs a bounded task.
  • User explicitly asks for Kimi or “use kimi for this.”

When not to use

  • Small / single-step tasks answerable with one or two edits or a short explanation.
  • Tight feedback loops where the user wants rapid back-and-forth refinement in one thread.
  • Secrets or policy-sensitive flows—avoid piping credentials; redact before delegating.
  • Already-loaded context where duplicating the whole plan adds no value—handle locally.
  • Low ROI (Return on Investment): If the task is "needle-in-a-haystack" (requires high precision over a single line) or if the time to compose the Handoff Table exceeds the time to simply edit the file locally.

Delegation and context (critical)

Isolated subagent context saves tokens but splits the story: Kimi Code does not see the main session's full thread. Poor handoffs cause misread subtasks, conflicting assumptions (stack, style, APIs), and wasted edits.

When composing the single Kimi Code prompt, treat it as passing enough shared state, not just a title:

Include Why
Original goal Same north star as the user—not only the immediate micro-task.
Decisions already made Framework, patterns, naming, auth approach, “use X not Y”—anything that would otherwise be guessed wrong.
Scope Paths, modules, and explicit out of scope / do-not-touch areas.
Constraints Performance, a11y, compatibility, review gates, “no new deps,” etc.
Verification Explicit command (e.g. npm test, lint) the subagent must run and pass before returning.
Expected output e.g. “summarize then list files changed,” “report only—no edits,” or “apply edits with minimal diff.”

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 98 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 0892cdd21509

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kimi-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills (5 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,488 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to claude-code, differing in 52 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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