Kilo Code Overview
Kilo Code is a powerful open-source agentic engineering platform designed to help developers build, ship, and iterate at lightning speed. Recognized as a top-tier tool on OpenRouter and trusted by hundreds of thousands of coders, Kilo Code integrates seamlessly into your existing workflow—whether you prefer working in VS Code, JetBrains, or the terminal. It moves beyond simple autocomplete by offering a suite of AI agents that can plan, execute, and audit code across your entire project. By providing access to over 500 different LLMs and maintaining full context across devices, Kilo Code ensures you stay in your flow without the friction of traditional development cycles.
Kilo Code Key Features
- Multi-Mode Agentic Engineering: Glide through every stage of development with specialized modes like Ask, Architect, Code, and Debug. Whether you need a knowledgeable assistant to answer technical questions or an Orchestrator to handle complex, multi-step tasks, there is a mode tailored for every part of your process.
- Total Model Flexibility: Stop being locked into a single provider. Kilo Code serves as a gateway to over 500 models, including frontier LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, as well as local options via Ollama. You can switch models instantly to find the perfect balance between reasoning, speed, and cost for any specific task.
- Seamless Workspace Sync and Context Persistence: Your work follows you wherever you go. You can start a task on your mobile device and finish it in your IDE without losing state. The platform automatically persists your session history, active agents, and variables across all environments so you never have to re-explain your context.
- Parallel Agent Execution: Multiply your productivity by running multiple AI agents simultaneously. Using the CLI or IDE Agent Manager, you can coordinate complex tasks across different parts of your codebase at once, allowing you to tackle massive refactors or feature builds in a fraction of the time.
- Advanced Memory Bank and Managed Indexing: Eliminate repetitive instructions with the Memory Bank, which stores architectural decisions and team preferences. Combined with managed semantic indexing, Kilo Code maintains a deep understanding of your entire codebase, enabling it to navigate and modify large projects with full context awareness.
- Automated Failure Recovery and Code Reviews: Kilo Code takes the boredom out of programming by automatically detecting errors and running test suites to recover from failures. It also provides automated code review agents that analyze pull requests and suggest improvements before you even hit merge.
- Open Source Transparency: Built on an open-source foundation, Kilo Code allows you to inspect, customize, and contribute to the platform. You have full visibility into prompts and context window usage, ensuring there are no "black box" surprises or silent context compression.
