Kilo Code

Works with the CLI alone. No gander.md account.

Kilo Code is an open source AI coding agent. It runs in the IDE, CLI, and cloud, and it can use hundreds of models without tying you to one provider.

Kilo Code loads skills from ~/.kilocode/skills and .kilocode/skills. gander skill does not write that dest. Add a symlink after install. MCP is a stdio server in Kilo Code's MCP settings.

1. Install the CLI

curl -fsSL https://release.gander.md/install.sh | bash
gander --version

After Homebrew or a source build, run gander skill.

mkdir -p ~/.kilocode/skills
ln -sfn ~/.gander/skill ~/.kilocode/skills/gander
ls -l ~/.kilocode/skills/gander/SKILL.md

Reload the editor window. Ask Kilo Code to list skills.

3. Sign up and add MCP

gander signup --email [email protected]

Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gander": {
      "command": "gander",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

to Kilo Code's MCP config. Use a full path if PATH is empty in the GUI.

4. Use it

  1. Ask Kilo Code for a plan as markdown, then gander this file.
  2. gander watch plan.md after signup.
  3. Send the hosted URL.
  4. @agent comments are MCP inbox work.

Fallback: gander comments.

5. Verify

gander list
gander comments
ls ~/.kilocode/skills/gander

More: Skill, MCP, Hosted watch.