Kilo Code is an AI Coding Agent made by Kilo Code, Inc. Its local clients — an extension for VS Code, a plugin for JetBrains IDEs and a command-line interface — are published as open source under the MIT license, so that users can inspect, modify, fork and run them. The company’s own page on openness pitches this as a way to inspect the coding agent you use and keep your choice of model. The site carries a banner announcing that Kilo has been acquired by Anaconda.
The company presents Kilo Code as an all-in-one agentic engineering platform rather than a single point tool, contrasting it with proprietary agents that, in its words, slow users down with gates and throttles.
Capabilities
The company’s component and license matrix separates what is open source from what is only source-available:
| Component | Availability | License |
|---|---|---|
| VS Code extension | Open source | MIT |
| JetBrains plugin | Open source | MIT |
| Kilo CLI | Open source | MIT |
| Gateway and Cloud backend | Source available | Repository license |
The Gateway and Cloud backend code is published for inspection, but the security and abuse-protection code is excluded from it. The page says “open” describes specific code and licenses, not every hosted service as one undifferentiated package.
As a platform, Kilo Code is described as covering an Architect → Code → Debug → Review flow through separate architect, code, debug and review agents, without switching applications. The same session and context are said to carry across VS Code, JetBrains, the CLI and Cloud Agents, so work can start on a phone, continue on a laptop and be handed to a cloud agent overnight. It supports bringing your own keys, and the company states that it offers access to more than 500 models from any provider, switchable at any time.
Adoption & Ecosystem
The company lists a set of public commitments: features that are open source today stay open source, bring-your-own-key is always supported, community contributions to the open-source codebase stay open source, the roadmap is public, and docs, downloads and features can be browsed without an account. It also says it builds Kilo with Kilo, naming Kilo Autocomplete, Parallel Agents, Kilo Sessions, Cloud Agents, Code Review, Voice Prompting and a Team AI Dashboard as features shipped in a six-week span using Kilo Code itself, and that Kilo Deploy went from first commit to general availability in two weeks — a pace it calls “Kilo Speed”. The project invites contributions through GitHub and has a Discord community.