Kilo Release Notes

Core

• Preserve write tool alongside apply_patch for GPT-5 models (@jacksonkasi1)
• Strengthen sync test and add missing ConfigCLICommand
• Align /local-review diff with agent manager diff viewer
• Make 'kilo help' show same output as 'kilo -h'
• Restore native --help for subcommands
• Add kilocode markers on mode block
• Add kilocode markers on agent block
• Add kilocode markers on command block
• Add workflows section to CLI documentation
• Add KILO_CONFIG_DIR to command paths in CLI documentation
• Add sync check ensuring commands.ts and index.ts stay in sync
• Disable built-in help command to allow kilo help --all to work
• Track remote connection opened event in PostHog
• Drop explicit CommandModule type from commands array to fix typecheck
• Add completion command to commands array for help --all and cli-reference
• Minimize index.ts diff and remove spurious changes
• Guard session import in config error handlers
• Fix kilocode_change markers in CLI code
• Let managed config errors propagate
• Include detail in validation error
• Move commands barrel to kilocode directory and restore upstream-style index.ts chain
• Improve config warning UX across CLI, TUI, and VS Code
• Add documentation explaining the purpose of commands.ts barrel file
• Add RemoteCommand to barrel exports, fix recursive subcommands, and include $0 commands in help --all output
• Add config warnings endpoint and surface errors to TUI/extension
• Add CONTEXT.md to CLI instructions list
• Add KILO_CONFIG_DIR to command lookup
• Widen KILO_DISABLE_PROJECT_CONFIG description in CLI documentation
• List all managed configuration files in CLI documentation
• Fix instructions auto-discovery list in CLI documentation
• Add missing opencode.jsonc to global paths documentation
• Add named-command lookup guidance to kilo-config skill
• Widened kilo-config skill to cover path location questions
• Add legacy paths to kilo-config skill documentation
• Surface schema validation errors to user in CLI
• Remove unscoped session.error publish from CLI
• Skip invalid agent/command configs instead of crashing
• Add regression tests for config resilience
• Remove empty openapi.json artifact and add DbCommand to test fixture (@maphew)
• Address bot review concerns (@maphew)
• Remove invalid ResolveMessage import and fix cli-reference link path (@maphew)
• Skip undescribed commands in review process and rename ambiguous variable (@maphew)
• Address review feedback: await rejects, gate options.all, sanitize cwd, add AttachStub (@maphew)
• Auto-generate CLI reference docs from help.ts (@maphew)
• Log catch block and document yargs version dependency (@maphew)
• Add kilo help --all command for full CLI reference in markdown or text (@maphew)

TUI

• Add kilocode_change marker to prompt flexShrink prop
• Add kilocode_change markers in toast code
• Add flexShrink={0} to prompt border box to prevent shrinking

Thank you to 6 community contributors:

@maphew:

• feat: add kilo help --all command for full CLI reference in markdown or text
• the plan for implementing help --all cmd
• fix: address review — log catch block, document yargs version dependency
• feat: auto-generate CLI reference docs from help.ts
• fix: address review — await rejects, gate options.all, sanitize cwd, add AttachStub
• fix: address review — skip undescribed commands, rename ambiguous var, remove marker
• Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into feat/help-all-command
• Merge upstream/main into feat/help-all-command; add DbCommand and WorkspaceServeCommand
• fix: remove invalid ResolveMessage import and fix cli-reference link path
• Merge branch 'main' into feat/help-all-command
• fix: address bot review concerns
• fix: remove empty openapi.json artifact, add DbCommand to test fixture

@aravhawk:

• Merge branch 'Kilo-Org:main' into session/agent_58776529-50a0-40ff-9d78-3f2f7e4d28b6

@justincqz:

• remove references to 'kilo web' in documentation

@thomasboom:

• Update bonus credits and AI model versions in README
• Merge branch 'main' into docs/updated-models-mentioned

@jacksonkasi1:

• fix: preserve write tool alongside apply_patch for gpt-5 models

@ScuttleBot:

• docs: update for task timeline graph and Agent Manager PR badges (#8532)

Core

• Guard against prompt injection in commits
• Add scope context and better git commands to review prompt
• Inject --rm flag for Docker MCP containers to prevent accumulation (@johnnyeric)
• Comment out specific conditions in ID check logic
• Add support for GLM, Kimi, and Qwen reasoning models
• Follow-up execution is now aware of the saved plan file (@shssoichiro)
• Update minimatch, @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, and @aws-sdk dependencies
• Update Hono to fix authentication bypass and server vulnerabilities
• Update simple-git dependency to fix critical remote code execution vulnerability
• Preserve specific MCP tool rules when propagating permissions to sub-agents
• Propagate MCP restrictions to sub-agents alongside edit and bash
• Preserve inherited restrictions across multi-hop sub-agent chains
• Apply read-only bash and MCP restrictions to plan mode and propagate bash restrictions to sub-agents
• Plan mode now respects edit restrictions and sub-agents inherit caller's file access permissions

Thank you to 2 community contributors:

• @shssoichiro:
  fix(core): make follow-up execution aware of the saved plan file
• @johnnyeric:
  fix(mcp): inject --rm flag for Docker MCP containers to prevent accumulation

Core

• Fixed hung state disposal during provider authentication refresh
• RevertBanner UI now shows no changes after successful file revert (@IamCoder18)
• Based on the generic commit message "refactor: address issues" without access to the actual changes, here's a cleaned up version:
• Address refactoring issues
• Based on the commit message "refactor: fix unmount", without access to see the actual changes, here's the most reasonable changelog summary:
• Fixed unmount cleanup and lifecycle handling
• Improve SDK claw types
• Based on the generic commit message "refactor: improve comments" without additional context about what was actually changed:
• Improve code documentation and comments
• Add KiloClaw Chat to TUI

TUI

• Guard against null theme in TUI resolveTheme and Proxy

Thank you to 1 community contributor:

• @IamCoder18:
  • fix: RevertBanner UI shows no changes after successful file revert (#8121)

Core

• Prevent unbounded log file growth with size-based rotation
• Import disabled MCPs with enabled: false instead of skipping them
• Skip logging for /log and /telemetry/capture endpoints to improve performance

Thank you to 2 community contributors:

• @wiliyam:
  • fix: register tr, nl, uk locales in i18n test coverage (#7271)
  • fix: add missing agentBehaviour and profile keys to tr/nl/uk locales
  • fix: remove duplicate profile.switchingAccount English fallback from nl.ts
• @St0rmz1:
  • docs(kiloclaw): add Triggers section with webhooks documentation
• Merge pull request #8091 from Kilo-Org/docs/kiloclaw-webhooks