Moonshot Is Forking Its Own CLI — kimi-cli 'Evolving Into' kimi-code, and Both Trend Simultaneously With ~1,535 Stars Each This Week

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MoonshotAI/kimi-cli (10,869 stars, +1,537 this week) now states it 'is evolving into Kimi Code CLI,' while the successor MoonshotAI/kimi-code (5,148 stars, +1,534 this week, 754 forks, 321 PRs) trends in parallel as 'The Starting Point for Next-Gen Agents.' Both speak ACP and MCP: kimi-code adds conversational MCP server configuration and authentication, and drives ACP-compatible editors including Zed and JetBrains. Neither repo publishes benchmark numbers or names specific Kimi model versions — worth watching which repo actually receives commits, since a mid-flight rename with both trending is a migration risk for anyone pinning the old package.