kimi-cli is MoonshotAI's Python AI coding assistant CLI, now explicitly archived and replaced by the TypeScript Kimi Code CLI. The pyproject.toml declares Development Status :: 7 - Inactive, the README states no further releases or security fixes will ship, and the final release (1.52.0) is a deprecation shim: every entry point short-circuits to a notice that downloads and installs the successor via a CDN script. Tests in the repo actively enforce that the legacy Typer CLI is unreachable. In its working life it was a full-featured terminal agent with interactive shell (prompt_toolkit/Rich), print mode, file editing tools, shell execution, web fetch/search, subagents, plan mode, approval workflows, background tasks, hooks, plugins, MCP server management, OAuth, and session persistence.