| name | kimi-plus |
| description | This skill should be used when the user asks to "run kimi", "use kimi", "delegate to kimi", "kimi resume", or requests frontend-delegation work suited to a lightweight resumable executor — scratchpad HTML iteration, visual/UI iteration loops, screenshot-to-component passes, component scaffolding, or mass boilerplate generation (stories, test skeletons). Executes tasks via the Claude Code CLI env-swapped to the Kimi K3 coding endpoint, with session management.
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Kimi Skill Guide
Language
All prompts passed to kimi-run.sh MUST be in English.
Prompt Delivery
- Generate a short unique suffix (e.g.,
a3f9, timestamp fragment, or task keyword) for this invocation
- Write the prompt to
<scratchpad>/kimi_prompt_<suffix>.txt using the Write tool — <scratchpad> is the session's scratchpad directory, the /private/tmp/…/scratchpad path announced in the system prompt; writes there run without permission prompts. When no scratchpad directory is announced, fall back to /private/tmp.
- Execute via wrapper script:
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/kimi-run.sh [options] <scratchpad>/kimi_prompt_<suffix>.txt
Context Classification
Before writing the prompt file, classify available context on two orthogonal axes:
- AI-verifiable × Session (already available) — extract paths, patterns, commands as Pointers; the kimi session self-verifies them.
- AI-verifiable × Exploration (needs collection) — provide search hints and entry points; the kimi session self-explores from them.
- User-specific × Session (already available) — summarize intent, constraints, and preferences from the current session, copy-only.
- User-specific × Exploration (needs collection) — blocked; this cell carries no collection requests or questions.
Test each item before including it: "Can the kimi session re-derive this from shared substrate with its own tools?" — yes → pass a pointer; no → copy it in.
Rules:
- Pointers: Provide file paths, grep patterns, test commands. Reserve copying for what the kimi session cannot re-derive.
- Session Context: Extract only what is already known from the current conversation. Organize as intent, constraints, and preferences.
- No collection requests: The prompt carries only user-specific information already in hand; when kimi needs more, the user supplies it on resume.
Prompt Template
Structure <scratchpad>/kimi_prompt_<suffix>.txt with these sections:
## Task
[User's request — framed as a complete end-to-end objective]
## Pointers
- files: [relevant file paths for kimi to read/verify]
- patterns: [grep patterns or keywords to explore]
- commands: [test/build commands if relevant]
## Session Context
- intent: [user's goal in one sentence]
- constraints: [limitations, compatibility requirements]
- preferences: [coding style, library choices, conventions]
Omit empty sections.
Intended Role
Kimi is a lightweight, resumable headless coding executor packaged like codex-plus but scoped to a different lane:
- Visual/UI iteration loops — scratchpad HTML iteration, screenshot-to-component passes, quick front-end prototyping cycles.
- Mass boilerplate generation — component scaffolding, stories, test skeletons, repetitive structural code.
Cross-vendor second opinions (architecture review, root-cause analysis, high-stakes reasoning) stay with codex-plus. This skill is the frontend-delegation executor lane.
A kimi run cannot spawn subagents. Split a task that seems to need one and issue the pieces yourself. When a returned artifact does not look like kimi's work, check the run log for a handoff to another tier before concluding the model underperformed.
Running a Task
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Run with the defaults — k3[1m] at high effort, thinking on. The default carries the 1M window, so long-context work (multi-file refactors, very large scratchpad sessions) needs no flag.
One model, one window. The context-window variables are pinned to 1M and do not follow -m, which is an unvalidated passthrough. -m k3-256k drops to the fixed 256K model at roughly half the quota while the window declaration stays at 1M — reach for it when a run plainly does not need the window and that mismatch is acceptable.
Effort — high or max. high is the default and carries most frontend and artifact work. Pass -r max when the run turns on real design judgment rather than when a task merely feels important. What the choice costs is quota (see Quota Awareness), not time.
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Select sandbox mode; default to read-only unless the task requires edits. Escalate to workspace-write for edit tasks with user awareness. Choose auto when the task must run its own verification — workspace-write permits file edits but still denies arbitrary Bash, so a linter, build, or test will not run under it; auto puts a classifier in front of each action instead, so those commands execute while a review layer remains. Under auto, state the task's boundary in the prompt itself (what it may touch, what it must not) — that conveyed boundary is what the review layer binds to. danger-full-access removes the review layer entirely and requires explicit permission (see Error Handling).
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Craft prompt per Context Classification and Prompt Template — classify context, write to <scratchpad>/kimi_prompt_<suffix>.txt.
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Run kimi-run.sh as a background job (Bash run_in_background=true) — never run it blocking inline in the main session. Backgrounding frees the main session: it runs detached (do other work; the session is re-invoked when the job exits) instead of freezing on a multi-minute run. The command: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/kimi-run.sh [options] <scratchpad>/kimi_prompt_<suffix>.txt with -m MODEL / -r EFFORT / -s SANDBOX / -C DIR, or -S <SESSION_ID> to resume. Details:
- mid-run progress via the scratchpad stream file: the wrapper streams claude's event log to (co-located with the prompt file). Open it on demand to check a long run mid-flight — byte-bound it () or for the events you care about (a bare line-based will not cap it: one JSONL event can be many MB). Expect : a mid-run read shows accumulated progress arriving in chunks with quiet gaps (the thinking-phase events are the main live signal), and the answer lands as one event near completion — so a quiet gap is not a stalled run;
Session Discipline
One model and one effort level per session — changing either mid-session invalidates the prompt cache and charges the re-prefill to quota. Pass the same -m MODEL and -r EFFORT on every -S resume; the script does not remember them, so track both in the {purpose → SESSION_ID} map.
Quota Awareness
Quota refreshes on a 7-day cycle from the subscription date and does not carry over, with a rolling 5-hour window on top of it. Every logged-in device and API key draws on the same pool, so a wall reached here was not necessarily spent here. On quota or 429-style errors, stop and report to the user — never retry-loop against a quota wall.
Prerequisites
- A Kimi Code membership carrying the 1M tier. The wrapper pins its window to match; a membership without it would need
-m on every run.
- Thinking stays on. A thinking-disabled request routes K3 and K2.7 Code to K2.6, a downgrade that surfaces as lower quality rather than an error, so keep
MAX_THINKING_TOKENS positive (the wrapper defaults it to 32000) and raise it when a task needs a deeper budget.
- The Kimi coding key exported as
MOONSHOT_CODING_KEY before invoking; sourcing it is machine-local setup outside this plugin's concern. kimi-run.sh reads it from the env, confines it to claude's process, and never persists it.
Error Handling
- The wrapper does not reword runtime failures. On any nonzero exit from the work itself, the underlying tool's own stderr and exit code pass straight through. Read that raw output as the diagnostic; for a claude or jq failure the full event log is in
<prompt>.stream.jsonl. Pre-flight validation is the exception — a bad flag, a missing prompt file, absent jq, an unknown sandbox tier, or an unset MOONSHOT_CODING_KEY emits a one-line Error: and exits 1 before any tool runs.
- A successful (exit 0) run can still carry an empty result — check for it; the wrapper does not. The script prints whatever the final
result event held, extracting .result and .session_id independently — so the two empty-result shapes differ. If the stream carried no result event at all, both the RESULT and the SESSION_ID line come back empty. If it carried a result event with an error subtype and no .result (quota exhausted, max turns, cancellation), the RESULT is empty but the SESSION_ID line is still present — resume works even when the answer is empty. Either way the exit code is 0, so do not trust it alone: when the result is empty, open the stream file and read the final result event's subtype/is_error for the cause.
- Validate the
SESSION_ID line independently of RESULT. .session_id is extracted separately from .result, so a perfectly good RESULT can still come back with an empty SESSION_ID: line (a result event carrying a missing, empty, or non-string session_id). Exit is 0 and the RESULT looks fine, so the empty-result check above never fires — check the SESSION_ID line on its own, and if it is empty treat the resume handle as lost (open the stream file for the session id, or accept the session is not resumable) rather than recording a blank handle in the {purpose → SESSION_ID} map.
- When inspecting the stream file, use byte-bounded reads (
tail -c / head -c) or a jq field projection — never bare line-based head/tail (a single JSONL event can be many MB and a line count will not cap it), and never cat it whole into context.
-o <FILE> is written only after a successful run — the RESULT text and the SESSION_ID line are already on stdout by then — so an unwritable path fails late, with the resume handle already delivered.
Quick Reference
Each command below runs as a background job (run_in_background=true); check progress mid-run by opening the co-located <scratchpad>/kimi_prompt_<suffix>.stream.jsonl on demand, and read the SESSION_ID: <uuid> line from the job's output when it exits.
Base patterns:
- Read-only analysis —
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/kimi-run.sh <scratchpad>/kimi_prompt_<suffix>.txt
- Apply edits —
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/kimi-run.sh -s workspace-write <scratchpad>/kimi_prompt_<suffix>.txt
- Edit and self-verify (lint/build/test) —
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/kimi-run.sh -s auto <scratchpad>/kimi_prompt_<suffix>.txt
- Resume a session —
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/kimi-run.sh -S <SESSION_ID> <scratchpad>/kimi_prompt_<suffix>.txt
Modifiers, added to any base pattern above:
- Different working directory —
-C <DIR>
- Cheaper, narrower run —
-m k3-256k drops to the fixed 256K model at roughly half the quota. The window declaration stays pinned at 1M, so use it only when that mismatch is acceptable
- Long context is the default —
k3[1m] needs no flag
- Deeper reasoning —
-r max (the default is high); an unaccepted value is rejected before the run rather than silently discarded
- Capture the answer to a file —
-o <FILE> writes kimi's final result text to FILE
Following Up
After kimi-run.sh completes, use AskUserQuestion to confirm next steps when the outcome is ambiguous or partial.
