Moonshot AI's Kimi Code Now Lets You Ditch Claude Code Without Reconfiguring Everything

Kimi Code, Moonshot AI's terminal-based coding agent, just shipped v0.13.0 with three quality-of-life upgrades that make it meaningfully easier to personalize your environment and migrate from competing tools. The update is available right now via kimi upgrade or a fresh npm install.

What landed in v0.13.0

The headline features are focused on customization and interoperability:

• Custom color themes , define your own palette as a JSON file dropped into ~/.kimi-code/themes/, or let the agent generate one for you interactively with /custom-theme.
• /import-from-cc-codex , a new slash command that pulls in instructions, Skills, and MCP server settings from an existing Claude Code or OpenAI Codex setup, so you don't have to reconfigure everything by hand.
• Plugin update badges , the marketplace now surfaces available updates inline, so you no longer have to hunt for whether a plugin has a newer version.

Themes: more control than you'd expect

Beyond the built-in dark and light palettes, you can define your own as a JSON file , override only the colors you care about, the rest fall back to a base palette, and the file name becomes the theme name. The system exposes around 18 named color tokens covering everything from diff gutters to error states and user-message bullets.

You don't need to write JSON from scratch. Run /custom-theme and let Kimi pick colors with you and write the theme file into ~/.kimi-code/themes/. You can pass a description inline:

/custom-theme Create a warm dark theme with amber accents.
/custom-theme Make a light theme based on Solarized, but keep errors easy to see.

A minimal theme file looks like this:

{
  "name": "ember