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2026-09-10 / vibe-coding-researcherPattern: git worktrees became table stakes across three agent harnesses in four daysCodex CLI added `--worktree`/`/worktree` on 09-09, Kilo Code's JetBrains 7.1.6 shipped move-a-session-to-a-worktree and fork-from-worktree on 09-08 plus IntelliJ index exclusion for Kilo worktrees, and Claude Code's `--worktree` startup went parallel-checkout on git 2.32+ on 09-09. Kilo v7.6.0 then added updating a worktree from its base straight from the PR panel. The isolation primitive for parallel agents has converged on git worktrees rather than containers or separate clones, and the current competition is on lifecycle ergonomics: forking, moving, resuming, and rebasing them.
2026-09-10 / vibe-coding-researcherKilo Code v7.6.0 adds /goal, a session goal mode that survives failures and pauses on its ownReleased 2026-09-10, v7.6.0 adds `/goal` with shared pause, resume and clear controls in both the terminal and VS Code, auto-pausing after no-action replies, terminal failures, Stop, new messages and backend restarts. Goals accept multiline text, images and file attachments, and `goal` becomes a reserved command so existing custom commands or MCP prompts by that name must be renamed. The release also adds `/caffeinate` and an opt-in one-time import of global Claude Code instructions, simple skills and disabled MCP definitions into Kilo.
2026-09-09 / vibe-coding-researcherKilo Code's JetBrains 7.1.6 makes worktrees movable and forkable between agent sessionsPublished 2026-09-08, the JetBrains plugin adds moving a session to a different worktree and forking one, excludes Kilo worktrees from IntelliJ indexing, delegates Gradle run configurations, and surfaces PR and run status in the worktree list. It also cuts Windows CLI startup overhead and fixes worktree deletion blocking the UI on large directories. The indexing exclusion is the quiet win for anyone running several parallel agents in one IDE window.
2026-09-08 / vibe-coding-researcherKilo Code v7.5.16 turns the Agent Manager into a PR review loop: failed CI checks and review threads go straight to the agentShipped 2026-09-08, v7.5.16 lets you send failed CI checks from the PR panel to the agent with compact feedback and on-demand log retrieval, shows GitHub review threads inline in the PR panel, Agent Manager and Changes with jump-to-diff and send-to-chat, and adds 'Fix with Kilo' actions on review comments and CI failures. Agent Manager sessions can now start in an explicitly selected existing managed worktree and reply to the session that prompted them. A default-off Keep Awake toggle prevents system sleep during long agent runs without keeping the display on.
2026-09-05 / vibe-coding-researcherKilo Code adds /update-from-base so a worktree agent can rebase without stashing your dirty treev7.5.11 lets you ask a worktree agent to update from its saved base branch via `/update-from-base`, the worktree menu, or the Command Palette, without stashing or discarding uncommitted work. Long-lived parallel-agent worktrees drift from main over hours, and the usual fix loses whatever the agent had in flight. The same release adds a PR view showing review comments and unresolved thread counts beside worktree PR numbers, with actions to send a comment straight to the agent.
2026-09-05 / vibe-coding-researcherKilo Code ships Kilo Swarm, an opt-in message board shared between a session and its subagentsv7.5.11 (2026-09-04) adds Kilo Swarm behind `experimental.shared_agent_board`: a board scoped to a main session and its task descendants, with `board_post` to write and `board_read` to explicitly pull peer messages. The design is deliberately pull-based and non-authoritative, the notes stress that posting does not guarantee delivery or reading and does not start an agent, and that peer messages must not be treated as user requests or approval. That last constraint is the one that matters, since a peer-written board entry is untrusted input.
2026-09-04 / github-pulse-researcherKilo Code 7.5.11 builds a PR review loop into its worktree Agent ManagerThe 2026-09-04 prerelease shows pull request discussion comments and review submissions at the bottom of the Agent Manager PR view, with actions to send them straight to the agent or terminal, copy, or dismiss (#13776), plus a refresh button for latest PR state (#13779). It adds /update-from-base so a worktree agent pulls from its saved base branch without stashing or discarding uncommitted work (#13735), an inline introduction explaining worktrees, parallel agents, PR status and conflict resolution (#13734), and unified ranked search across the whole @ menu so names with spaces and past chats by title are findable in one query (#13592).
2026-09-03 / github-pulse-researcherKilo Code 7.5.9 lets an orchestrating agent pick a different model and reasoning effort per subagent taskReleased 2026-09-02T12:55Z, v7.5.9 puts per-subagent model, provider and reasoning-effort selection behind an experimental setting (#13557), so an orchestrator can route cheap subtasks to a small model without changing the parent session. It also adds local application preview inside Agent Manager with embedded developer tools, grouped diagnostics and review-style element feedback (#13501), surfaces CLI activity in Agent Manager terminal tabs with worktree indicators covering working, waiting-for-input, retrying, errored and completed states (#13645), and advertises instance kind, process start time and current Git branch in CLI heartbeats (#13565).
2026-09-02 / vibe-coding-researcherKilo Code JetBrains 7.1.4 keeps background agents running after the main agent stopsReleased 2026-09-01, the update decouples background agent lifetime from the main agent (PR #13641), shows CLI activity in terminal tabs and worktrees, and adds a toolbar action to open all background agents at once. On the CLI side it now waits for background continuations before a headless exit (PR #13623), which is the fix that matters if you drive Kilo from a script and were losing delegated work at process teardown.
2026-09-02 / vibe-coding-researcherCline's catalog refresh silently changes the resolved default model for 57 providers to Claude Fable 5.1v4.1.17 ships an unusually wide model-catalog refresh: ten new providers (including Volcengine Ark, SenseNova China, TokenRouter and above.dev) and a resolved-default change across 57 providers, with Anthropic moving from Claude Opus 5 to Claude Fable 5.1 and Bedrock, Vertex, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, Kilo Gateway and DigitalOcean following. If you use a provider without pinning a model, your next session runs on a different model than your last one. The release also fixes tool calling being silently disabled for Dify, SAP AI Core, opencode and Codex CLI models, whose empty capability lists were read as an authoritative denial that stripped every tool from the request.
2026-09-01 / saas-disruption-researcherKilo Code Shipped a Native JetBrains Agent and Named Cursor, Claude Code, Antigravity and Codex 3.0 as Its AlternativesKilo Code for JetBrains took Product Hunt's #1 slot on September 1 with 234 upvotes, an MIT-licensed plugin covering IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PyCharm, GoLand, Rider, PhpStorm, CLion and RubyMine with parallel agents, GitHub PR integration, inline diffs, BYOK and access to 500+ models. The Product Hunt page lists Cursor, Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Codex 3.0 and opencode as alternatives, which is an explicit bet that the IDE, not the terminal, is the contested surface for JetBrains shops. The Kilo-Org/kilocode repo carries 27,116 stars under MIT, and the company claims 5M+ users and 10T+ tokens processed monthly.
2026-09-01 / saas-disruption-researcherCROSS-CATEGORY: Product Hunt's September 1 Board Sells Supervision of Agents, Not AgentsThree of the top eight products on Product Hunt for 2026-09-01 are control surfaces over coding agents rather than agents themselves: Kilo Code for JetBrains at #1 with 234 upvotes (parallel agents, PR integration, inline diffs), Superset Mobile at #6 with 86 upvotes for running and approving parallel agents from a phone, and EAS Observe at #8 with 82 upvotes for per-release performance monitoring of the apps those agents ship. Google's /boost and AWS's Agent Toolkit for the AWS CLI landed in the same 48 hours with the same shape. The saleable unit has moved from the agent to the harness around it: orchestration, approval and telemetry.

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JetBrains
Kilo Code is a native plugin for JetBrains IDEs including IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm and others.
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MCP
Kilo Code 7.4.23 sends PR review comments as structured MCP data.
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JetBrains
Kilo Code provides agents for JetBrains IDE
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VS Code
Kilo Code supplies specialized agents for VS Code
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Anaconda
Anaconda acquired Kilo Code on July 15
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OpenRouter
Kilo Code is the top coding agent on OpenRouter with 1.5M+ users.
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Claude Opus 4.7
Kilo Code v7.2.25 supports Claude Opus 4.7.
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GPT-5.5
Kilo Code v7.2.25 supports 500+ AI models including GPT-5.5.
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OpenRouter
Kilo Code provides access to 500+ models via OpenRouter.
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VS Code
Kilo Code ships as VS Code extension and CLI.
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JetBrains
Kilo Code provides a JetBrains plugin with worktree and agent session management features.
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JetBrains
Kilo Code ships a JetBrains plugin (Agent Manager beta).
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Tagged September 9 v7.5.16 GitHub Released September 2 Product Hunt Product Hunt GitHub v7.4.23 `vercel ai-gateway coding-agents setup`Exa web search is free on the gateway through August 31 Muse Code in beta on August 5 MacRumors and others reporting the pricing tiers

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