wtf is kimini?

Kimini is a native desktop app for Kimi Code, an AI coding assistant tool. It connects directly to the local Kimi Code background service, keeps your existing chat sessions, and gives you a fast, natively rendered workspace for coding conversations, instead of running everything inside a web browser. A separate companion app called Kimini Web is also included for people who want the exact look and behavior of Kimi Code's own web interface, since both apps share the same local service, login, and session data. The native app renders its interface directly using the operating system's graphics layer, Metal on macOS, Vulkan on Linux, and DirectX on Windows, rather than drawing everything in an embedded browser window. A small embedded browser view is only created on demand, for example when previewing a link or logging in. Currently macOS is fully released with automatic updates, Linux is available as a preview build, and Windows support is still being finished and tested. Features in the native app include creating, searching, renaming, archiving, and forking conversations, undo, file attachments, streaming responses with visible AI reasoning traces, approval prompts, task and skill management, a built in terminal, English and Chinese interface language, theme options, and keyboard shortcuts for quickly switching between files, skills, terminal, and tasks. To use Kimini, you first install the separate Kimi Code command line tool with an install script, log in through it, and then download the matching Kimini build for your operating system from the project's releases page. On Linux you also need to install a few graphics and desktop libraries before running it. Building the app yourself from source requires Rust 1.96 or newer and a simple make command, with a separate PowerShell script provided for Windows builds. The project is licensed under MIT, a permissive license that allows free use, modification, and redistribution, including commercial use, as long as the copyright notice is kept.