The Dark Side of the Moon rewrites the terminal intelligent agent and changes its name to kimi code, fully aligning with the Claude Code architecture According to Beating monitoring, Kimi cli, an open-source terminal AI encoding intelligent agent under the Moon Dark Side, is quietly undergoing warehouse migration and architecture rewriting, and has officially been renamed Kimi code. In order to solve the bottleneck of interaction response and execution efficiency in the original Python version, the R&D team fully turned to the technical route of Anthropic's terminal tool Claude Code, and completed a complete architecture reconstruction based on TypeScript and Bun runtime, achieving millisecond level cold start and smooth terminal user interface (TUI). This architecture adjustment means that Kimi has completely abandoned the original Python terminal technology stack and fully benchmarked and introduced the mature solution of Claude Code. The tool uses Commander.js to standardize command parsing and implements a new responsive TUI interface based on React Ink instead of Rich and prompt toolkit. Refactoring involves a total of 166 TypeScript source code files, with code increments exceeding 38000 lines. In the SWE bench Verified benchmark test, the TypeScript refactoring version based on the kimi-k2.5 model successfully solved 317 out of 500 development tasks (with a resolution rate of 63.4%), maintaining the performance of the original Python version while significantly improving runtime stability and network layer anti-interference ability. In addition to benchmarking the base architecture, Kimi code focuses on polishing the human-machine collaboration experience. The new version not only supports dragging screen recordings and other video assets into the terminal for multimodal analysis, but also deeply restores multiple benchmark designs of Claude Code, including the "Plan Mode" that supports cursor interaction editing, commonly used Emacs shortcut keys, secure design for quick exit by double clicking Ctrl+C, and support for automated workflows through custom lifecycle hooks. In terms of compatibility with multiple model ecosystems, Kimi code has opened up custom access to third-party large model APIs, making the tool not limited to the Kimi family, but also usable as a unified terminal programming gateway across models. [Original link]