Use the Moonshot AI API in your coding agents

moonshot or kimi-code?

Both presets serve Kimi models, but they are two separate accounts on two hosts:

Each preset sends your key to its own host, so choose by the console that issued the key. If you hold both, add both: they are separate providers in yoink and can sit side by side in every agent except Claude Code, which takes one at a time. The Kimi Code page covers the other preset.

Add it

The interactive flow names the profile after the preset label, so it suggests moonshot-ai. That id becomes the provider key in every config and the stem of any environment variable an agent reads. The scripted example below uses the shorter moonshot.

yoink add
 
echo "$MOONSHOT_API_KEY" | yoink add --external --name moonshot --preset moonshot \
  --models <model> --connect opencode,qwen,droid,zed --default <model> --token-stdin

The picker reads the live list at https://api.moonshot.ai/v1/models. Model limits come from models.dev, where yoink prefers an entry filed under the provider key moonshot or served from api.moonshot.ai when the same model id appears under several providers.

What lands in Droid and Zed

Droid prefers Anthropic Messages, so its entries point at the /anthropic URL. Each model becomes one customModels item in ~/.factory/settings.json, tagged with the profile id in brackets so yoink can find it again:

{
  "model": "<model>",
  "displayName": "<model> [moonshot]",
  "baseUrl": "https://api.moonshot.ai/anthropic",
  "apiKey": "<your key>",
  "provider": "anthropic"
}

Zed (experimental) takes Chat Completions instead. yoink adds language_models.openai_compatible.moonshot with "api_url": "https://api.moonshot.ai/v1" and the model list, and sets agent.default_model. Zed never reads a key from settings.json, so after connecting yoink prints:

Zed does not store API keys in settings.json. Set MOONSHOT_API_KEY in your environment or paste the key in Zed's agent settings.

With the interactive id moonshot-ai, the variable is MOONSHOT_AI_API_KEY instead.

Use it in Claude Code

Claude Code gets ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.moonshot.ai/anthropic and the chosen model in every tier, and Moonshot AI becomes the active yoink profile. Use yoink connect moonshot --to claude-code --default <model>; the details of the seven keys and the per-project option are in Providers.

Rotate the key

Run yoink edit moonshot, choose API key, and paste the new one. Droid, opencode, Qwen Code and every other connected agent get it in the same save. Zed is the exception, and so is Goose when it keeps secrets in the OS keyring: there the key lives in your environment or the keyring, so update it there too.

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