ADtention for Kimi Code

One quiet sponsor line under the Kimi Code TUI that pays you while your agent works.

⊕ $0.16  Tailscale: VPN with 0 config

Kimi Code has no statusline or plugin-UI API, so this surface works differently from our other integrations: a PTY wrapper owns the terminal's real bottom row and Kimi never knows it exists.

How it works

The wrapper spawns the real kimi binary inside a PTY that reports one row fewer than the terminal, confines scrolling to those rows with a DECSTBM scroll region, and paints the sponsor line on the reserved last row. Display is decoupled from billing:

• A serve (POST /v1/serve, the billable impression) happens only on a real prompt (Enter in the chatbox), at most once per 15 s dwell window. Idle terminals earn nothing.
• The line always renders from a local cache — instant, offline-safe.
• Every 10th slot is a rotating house unit (connect / refer / cash out) rendered locally with zero serve calls.
• The ad line never enters the model context: zero token cost, the model never sees it.

Hotkeys (intercepted by the wrapper before Kimi sees them, collision-free):

• ctrl+g — open the sponsor link (attributed via /v1/click/<impression_id>). The ad text is also an OSC 8 hyperlink (cmd+click in iTerm2/Ghostty/Kitty/WezTerm).
• ctrl+e — connect your earnings: opens the portal with your install identity in the URL fragment (/earn#pub=..&secret=..); the earn page prefills the claim form. Fragments never reach server logs or Referer headers.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adtention-ai/kimi/main/install.sh | bash

Installs a prebuilt, checksum-verified binary (macOS/Linux, arm64/amd64; python3 fallback elsewhere). Requires an existing Kimi Code install at ~/.kimi-code/bin/kimi — set KIMI_BIN=/path/to/kimi if yours lives elsewhere. Open a new terminal afterwards and just type kimi.

Or via npm (installs the adtention-kimi command; run it in place of kimi):

npm i -g @adtention/kimicode

Non-interactive use (pipes, scripts, kimi -p with redirection) passes straight through to the real binary. Escape hatch: ADTENTION_DISABLE=1 kimi. To uninstall, drop the ~/.adtention/bin line from your shell rc and rm -rf ~/.adtention.

Configuration (env)

| Var | Purpose | | --- | --- | | ADTENTION_DISABLE=1 | run bare kimi, no sponsor line | | ADTENTION_REF | referral code sent on first register | | ADTENTION_KIMI_BIN | path to the real kimi binary (default ~/.kimi-code/bin/kimi) |

(Test-harness overrides — API/portal endpoints, dwell, cadence, paths — are documented in test/e2e.py.)

Development

Building, the two-wrapper test contract, and hard-won terminal details live in DEVELOPMENT.md. The dev → main release flow (versioning, npm trusted publishing, tags, GitHub Releases) is in RELEASING.md.

Built by ADtention. Same network as the Claude Code status line and the OpenCode line. MIT — see LICENSE.