At a glance
An MIT-licensed, multi-provider coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, terminal, browser-hosted cloud, and CI, with delegated subagents, MCP, browser automation, Git snapshots, and an opt-in macOS or Linux sandbox.
Good choice if
- Vibe coders who want an IDE-first agent, subscription or local models, and a practical undo path
- Developers who want the same sessions and provider choices across editor, terminal, cloud, and CI
- Parallel work that combines delegated subagents with isolated Git worktrees
Check before choosing
- The local OS sandbox is disabled by default, unavailable on Windows, and limits writes and network access rather than filesystem reads; Kilo explicitly says it is not a privacy boundary or a complete firewall
- `kilo run --auto` disables permission prompts; unattended work still needs a trusted or separately isolated environment
- Git snapshots are recovery aids rather than backups: ignored files are excluded and old unreachable snapshots can be pruned after seven days
See 1 more considerations
- Cloud Agent runs in a separate managed Cloudflare sandbox architecture with its own repository credentials, persistence, and observability boundaries; this does not make the local CLI sandbox-first