Kilo is the standalone agent CLI of the Kilo agentic engineering platform, the open source coding agent for building, shipping, and iterating on software. It plans, edits, and executes engineering work directly in the terminal with support for tree-sitter language parsing and sandboxed task execution.
What's new in 7.8.18
VS Code 7.8.18 Patch Changes - #15410 5f2aa0b Thanks @WebReflection! - Update DOMPurify to 3.4.17 to fix sanitization issues flagged by Dependabot alerts. - #15412 0377248 Thanks @WebReflection! - Update vite to 7.3.7 to fix the launch-editor editor CLI flag misinterpretation flagged by Dependabot (CVE-2026-112944). CLI 7.8.18 Minor Changes - #15358 f96361f - Expose hosted cloud sessions through the local Kilo API, so editors can discover, read, and interact with a hosted session without ever handling its provider credentials. Patch Changes - #15430 ef2f6d9 Thanks @WebReflection! - Update the MCP TypeScript SDK to 1.32.1 to fix security issues flagged by Dependabot, including MCP HTTP and OAuth requests following cross-origin redirects. Remote MCP servers whose URL redirects to another origin, or answers POST with a 301, 302 or 303 redirect, no longer connect; use the server's final URL instead.
Yes. Kilo is free and open-source software released under the MIT license.
What is the latest version of Kilo?
The latest version is 7.8.18, released on Oct 26, 2026.
Is it safe to download Kilo?
The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with 4d13c566a3e7d91ceb6986ea037a4eee6aa145918a75b38f8208034c07e74780.
Which Windows versions does Kilo support?
Kilo runs on Windows and is available for 64-bit (x64), ARM64 systems.
How do I uninstall Kilo?
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Kilo and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=KiloCode.Kilo -e.
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