<h2>What shipped</h2>
Kilo Code’s VS Code extension hit general availability in April 2026 after a complete rebuild on OpenCode server, an MIT-licensed portable core shared with the Kilo CLI. The practical upside: improvements to the core now propagate to VS Code, CLI, and Cloud Agents at the same time, rather than each surface needing separate work.
The rebuild brought several new capabilities:
<ul>
<li>Parallel tool calls and sub-agent delegation - agents can hand off subtasks instead of working sequentially</li>
<li>Agent Manager - run and monitor multiple independent agent sessions simultaneously</li>
<li>Git worktree isolation - parallel agents work in separate worktrees so they don’t step on each other</li>
<li>Inline code review - line-level comments directly on diffs, without leaving the editor</li>
<li>Multi-model comparison - run different LLMs on the same prompt side by side</li>
<li>Cross-platform session continuity - pick up a session in VS Code that you started in the CLI</li>
</ul>
<h2>Free usage options</h2>
If you want to run Kilo Code without paying for API credits, there are a few paths:
<ul>
<li>Kilo’s built-in free models - available directly in the extension</li>
<li>OpenRouter free tier - includes Qwen3, GLM 4.5 Air, Deepseek R1, and Kimi K2</li>
<li>NVIDIA API catalog - accessible via the OpenAI-compatible provider setting</li>
<li>Mistral Codestral - free autocomplete through Mistral’s API</li>
</ul>
<h2>Week-one bugs and what’s being fixed</h2>
The GA rollout via auto-update exposed the usual problems that only show up at full user scale. The team identified five areas being actively worked on:
<ol>
<li>Rate-limit handling - smarter retry logic and cleaner cancellation when limits are hit</li>
<li>Plan/Ask agent controls - stricter guardrails on write operations so agents don’t make changes they shouldn’t</li>
<li>Diff review and permission flows - better human-in-the-loop checkpoints before destructive actions</li>
<li>Startup config validation - actionable error messages instead of silent failures when configuration is wrong</li>
<li>Memory and performance on Windows and large monorepos - regressions introduced in the rebuild are being tracked down</li>
</ol>
If the new version is causing problems, downgrading to 5.x is an option while fixes ship.

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Kilo Code's VS Code extension has reached general availability after a full rebuild on the OpenCode server, an MIT-licensed core shared with the Kilo CLI and Cloud Agents. New features include parallel tool calls, sub-agent delegation, an Agent Manager for running multiple sessions simultaneously, Git worktree isolation for parallel agents, inline code review on diffs, multi-model comparison, and cross-platform session continuity. Free usage options are available via built-in models, OpenRouter's free tier (Qwen3, Deepseek R1, Kimi K2), NVIDIA API catalog, and Mistral Codestral. The GA rollout also surfaced several bugs being actively addressed, including rate-limit handling, agent write guardrails, diff review flows, startup config validation, and Windows/monorepo performance regressions. Users experiencing issues can downgrade to 5.x while fixes ship.

Kilo Code for VS Code is now generally available, with parallel agents and free model options