This Week in Kilo Code: CLI Upgrades, YOLO Mode, and Auto Cleanup

Extension versions 4.114.0 – 4.118.0 | CLI versions 0.0.16 – 0.3.0

Welcome back to the weekly product roundup! This week brings useful improvements across both the Extension and CLI, including CLI checkpointing, automatic workspace cleanup, and expanded provider support.

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CLI

Checkpoint Restoration

You can now roll back any conversation to a previous step using the Checkpoint feature in the CLI. You can undo refactors, try alternate approaches, or return to a known-good session.

• /checkpoint list shows all restore points with timestamps and hashes.

• /checkpoint restore <hash> reverts to the identified state and confirms changes.

Workflow Improvements

A series of other updates have made the CLI more powerful and interactive than ever:

• Shell Mode – Quick access to shell commands without approval workflow. Press Shift+1 to enable and execute shell commands.

• Task History – View, search, and select task history using the /tasks command and subcommands.

• Continue conversation – Resume or view your previous CLI session by using the -c, —-continue flags.

Get the latest CLI:

npm install -g @kilocode/cli

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YOLO Mode (Auto-Approval)

“You Only Live Once” (YOLO) mode grants Kilo Code full autonomy by automatically approving all actions — such as reading files, writing code, and executing commands.

• Best for: rapid prototyping, isolated or low-stakes projects, and maximum AI autonomy.

• Avoid in: production, sensitive, or high-risk environments where errors could be costly.

It’s the fastest but riskiest workflow, so use only when you are comfortable with fully trusting the AI and accepting potential consequences.

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Auto Cleanup

The new Auto Cleanup feature automatically manages your task history to free up disk space and improve performance.

It intelligently classifies tasks by type and age, keeping important or favorited work safe while removing old, incomplete, or temporary ones.

You can customize retention periods per task type, run cleanups manually, and protect active or favorited tasks from deletion. All operations happen locally, with detailed cleanup reports and full control over what stays or goes.

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Provider and Model Expansion

We’ve broadened provider and model support across the ecosystem:

• Moonshot.ai – Enabled native JSON-style tool calls and added Kimi K2-Thinking model.

• MiniMax Provider – Now preserves reasoning blocks and supports native tools.

• Anthropic (Claude Haiku 4.5) – Enabled experimental JSON-style tool calls and reasoning persistence.

• Inception – Added as new provider.

• Cerebras – Added zai-glm-4.6 and enabled gpt-oss-120b as the default model.

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View All Latest Releases

CLI: 0.0.16 • 0.1.0 • 0.1.1 • 0.1.2 • 0.2.0 • 0.3.0
Extension: 4.114.0 • 4.114.1 • 4.115.0 • 4.116.0 • 4.116.1 • 4.117.0 • 4.118.0

Thanks for catching up. See you next week!