Use a Kimi Code API key in your coding agents

Two URLs that differ by /v1

Both endpoints live under the same path. OpenAI Chat Completions is https://api.kimi.com/coding/v1, and Anthropic Messages is the same address without /v1, https://api.kimi.com/coding. Chat Completions comes first in the preset, so the interactive picker lists models from https://api.kimi.com/coding/v1/models.

In practice the Anthropic URL lands in three places: Claude Code's ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, Droid's customModels entries (with provider: "anthropic"), and the Claude Desktop config library. Every other agent gets the /v1 address.

This is not Kimi Code login switching

yoink handles Kimi in two unrelated ways, and they never share a credential:

Switching a Kimi login never touches the agents this preset is connected to, and connecting the preset never changes who is signed in to the Kimi CLI. The login side is covered in Subscriptions.

Add it

yoink add
 
echo "$KIMI_CODE_API_KEY" | yoink add --external --name kimi-code --preset kimi-code \
  --models <model> --connect opencode,pi,crush --default <model> --token-stdin

The suggested profile id in the interactive flow is kimi-code, which also names the provider inside each config. Agents that read the key from the environment derive their variable from that id: Goose looks for CUSTOM_KIMI_CODE_API_KEY and Zed for KIMI_CODE_API_KEY, and yoink prints the exact name after connecting.

Here is the Crush entry yoink writes into ~/.config/crush/crush.json (model list trimmed):

{
  "providers": {
    "kimi-code": {
      "name": "Kimi Code",
      "type": "openai-compat",
      "base_url": "https://api.kimi.com/coding/v1",
      "api_key": "<your key>",
      "models": [{ "id": "<model>", "name": "<model>" }]
    }
  },
  "models": { "large": { "model": "<model>", "provider": "kimi-code" } }
}

Use it in Claude Code

Connecting kimi-code to Claude Code switches Claude Code over to it, because Claude Code holds one backend at a time. yoink writes the seven managed keys with ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL set to https://api.kimi.com/coding. Switching back to a saved Claude account strips them.

yoink connect kimi-code --to claude-code --default <model>

Pick models and rotate the key

yoink models kimi-code reopens the picker against the live list, and --set takes ids directly. A new key goes in with yoink edit kimi-code --token-stdin and reaches every connected agent at once.

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