Kilo Code Claims #1 Coding Agent on OpenRouter With 1.5M+ Users and 16.8K GitHub Stars

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Kilo-Org/kilocode positions itself as the leading open-source VS Code coding agent with 1.5M+ 'Kilo Coders' and 25 trillion tokens processed, claiming the #1 slot on OpenRouter by request volume. At 16.8K GitHub stars the project has become a serious open-source alternative to Cursor and GitHub Copilot for agentic engineering workflows. The repo describes itself as 'the all-in-one agentic engineering platform' with an active community competing directly against commercial tools.