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Released September 18, the VS Code side also lets worktree-independent slash commands run from the New Worktree prompt and recovers permission dialogs stalling with disabled buttons. The CLI side stops denying read-only bash commands in Ask, Plan and Explore modes for literal text. GitHub The earlier 7.7.4 added leftover worktree folder counts and sizes with a cleanup dialog.
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Specialized Code / Plan / Debug / Review / Ask agents across VS Code, JetBrains and CLI with terminal and browser control and a CI/CD autonomous mode. The differentiator is commercial, not technical: provider pricing with no markup, switchable mid-task, no API key to start. Pr...
v7.7.4, released September 18, adds it behind a setting (or KILO_EXPERIMENTAL_CODE_MODE). The agent calls MCP tools from a confined JS program and discovers tools on demand, so fewer tool definitions get sent to the model at all. This is the direct answer to MCP definition blo...
Pull request discussion comments and review submissions render at the bottom of the Agent Manager PR view, with actions to send them straight to the agent or terminal, copy, or dismiss, plus a refresh for latest PR state. It adds /update-from-base so a worktree agent pulls fro...
The most under-hyped tool of the week is a single Rust binary with zero dependencies that sits between your coding agent and your terminal, compressing command outputs before they hit the context window. rtk (Rust Token Killer) intercepts common dev commands — cargo test, git...
The release removes the VS Code chat panel and sidebar button, the /kiloclaw TUI command and chat view, the Kilo Chat client and token handling, and the kilo.claw.status and kilo.claw.chatCredentials gateway endpoints, taking @kilocode/kilo-gateway and @kilocode/sdk to 8.0.0....
A standalone macOS and Windows desktop beta released September 14, moving the open-source agent out of the VS Code extension slot; the releases page shows Desktop v0.0.26 on September 11, v0.0.27 on September 13 and v0.0.28 on September 15, so it's shipping daily (GitHub). It...
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