Kimi Code

  • ID: kimi
  • Store: ${KIMI_CODE_HOME:-~/.kimi-code}/sessions/<workDirKey>/<sessionId>/agents/main/wire.jsonl
  • Read override: DEJA_KIMI_ROOT (takes precedence over KIMI_CODE_HOME for reads)
  • Format: append-only JSONL wire protocol (observed protocol_version 1.1–1.4)

state.json next to each session supplies title, workDir (project) and

timestamps. User turns arrive as context.append_message; streamed assistant

turns are reconstructed from step.begin → content.part (type text only;

think parts are skipped) → step.end, with an end-of-file flush so a

response that is mid-stream when indexing runs is not lost. Sub-agent

histories under agents/agent-*, tool payloads and media are out of scope.

  • MCP: deja install kimi writes mcpServers.deja into

$KIMI_CODE_HOME/mcp.json (common JSON shape, existing entries preserved).

  • Guidance: a skill at $KIMI_CODE_HOME/skills/deja-history/. Kimi Code scans that directory; the ~/.kimi/skills/ in some write-ups belongs to MoonshotAI/kimi-cli, a different tool with the same name. An older deja wrote a block into the global AGENTS.md, which install now removes.
  • Resume: kimi --session <sessionId> (verified live on 0.28.1).
  • Handoff: paste — the CLI has no documented start-with-prompt flag.

Requested and specified by @yearth in

#248.

Last verified: 2026-07-28

deja reads this format and nineteen others, and turns what it finds into memory your agents can search. See the harness matrix for what is wired where, or install it and search your own history.