---
title: "Moonshot AI's Kimi Code Now Lets You Ditch Claude Code Without Reconfiguring Everything"
subtitle: "Kimi Code CLI v0.13.0 adds custom color themes, one-command Claude Code and Codex migration, and live plugin update alerts"
url: "https://alphasignal.ai/news/moonshot-ai-s-kimi-code-now-lets-you-ditch-claude-code-without-reconfiguring"
author: "AlphaSignal Newsroom"
author_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/editorial-team"
company: "Kimi Developers"
company_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/company/kimidevs"
published: "2026-06-10T12:30:00.000Z"
updated: "2026-06-16T19:50:50.139Z"
type: "News"
topics:
  - "Development"
  - "Open Source"
subtopics:
  - "Code Generation"
upvotes: 517
read_time: "2 min"
source_url: "https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code-cli/release-notes/changelog.html"
comments: 0
---

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

> Kimi Code CLI v0.13.0 adds custom color themes, one-command Claude Code and Codex migration, and live plugin update alerts

[Kimi Code](https://www.kimi.com/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
```

## Sources

- [X post by @kimidevs](https://x.com/kimidevs/status/2064686517348597895)