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Developers who want an agent that plans, codes, and reviews in separate modes, with model choice.

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Kilo Code runs as a VS Code extension, a terminal agent, or a desktop app, using 500+ frontier, open-weight, or bring-your-own-key models with no markup. It splits work into architect, code, debug, and orchestrator modes, and adds checkpoints, memory, and multi-file edits. It is MIT-licensed with 27,000 GitHub stars and active weekly releases. It is a fast-moving fork of the Cline and Roo lineage, so behavior and hosted-credit pricing can change; self-managed keys avoid that.

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