Harness · Kilo-Org/kilocode
Kilo Code
The featureful, IDE-native end of the spectrum — lineage Cline → Roo Code → Kilo Code. A high-traffic entrant on OpenRouter's CLI-tools rankings as of 2026.
aeqi builds one of the harnesses measured here. This board is in method preview and pre-registration — no performance scores are published yet, and we lead with our own losses, not our wins. Read the method & charter →
Result: not yet measured
The facts
- Maintainer
- Kilo-Org
- Source
- Kilo-Org/kilocode
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Category
- Coding harness
- Headless run
- Partial — primarily a VS Code extension; CLI exists (npm) but the editor loop is the main surface
- Native OpenRouter
- — can be pinned to one shared model
- Determinism notes
- The IDE-embedded surface is the fairness challenge — the CLI is the path to a controlled run. Smoke-test first.
Where it sits
Performance scores land here only with published traces, under the pre-registered method. Until then, this profile is the fair-run readiness check: can we start Kilo Code headless and pin it to one shared model to isolate the scaffold?