What is kimiscope?

KimiScope is a desktop application that gives you a graphical window into Kimi Code, an AI coding assistant. Instead of interacting with Kimi Code only through a command line, KimiScope provides a visual interface showing live streaming responses, collapsible sections for the AI's step by step thinking, and cards showing terminal commands, file diffs, and nested subtasks as they happen. A side panel keeps track of pending todo items, how much context and token budget a session has used, background tasks, and which files were touched during the session. The app talks to a background program called the kimi daemon over a local network connection, rather than spawning and directly managing a single process itself. This matters because it means a session keeps running even if you close the KimiScope window in the middle of a task, and reopening the app can pick the conversation back up from where it left off. The project explains that it deliberately avoided a more common protocol used by similar tools because that alternative ties the session's life to the client staying open, which the author found less reliable. You can queue up multiple prompts, interrupt or steer a running task, and manage several different project sessions at once from a sidebar, with small icons showing whether a session is actively working or running something in the background. The app can also be extended with optional tool integrations, configured through a settings file, that let the AI control a web browser or interact with the Windows desktop directly, though the README warns to be careful with these when the assistant is set to automatically approve its own actions. Notably, the README states that KimiScope itself was built primarily by a Kimi Code AI agent, with a human reviewing and directing the work at each step, making the project a demonstration of what the underlying tool can do. It currently only runs on Windows and requires Node.js along with the separate Kimi Code command line tool to be installed first. It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows free use, modification, and distribution as long as the copyright notice is kept.