Moonshot AI makes Kimi Code ask before trusting project folders

Moonshot AI's October 21st update prompts users to trust newly opened folders, confirms model switches and adds a way to reload sessions after configuration changes.

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Why it matters

Trust prompts and model-switch confirmations give developers more control over what a coding agent can do in a local project and what happens to an active session.

Moonshot's Kimi Code desktop app brings its coding agent out of the terminal — An October 23rd Kimi post showed the desktop client, which Moonshot's docs say has been available since September 17th, as Yang Zhilin's research-to-product…

Moonshot AI's October 21st update to Kimi Code Desktop adds a trust prompt for newly opened folders. Declining the prompt blocks messages from being sent in that workspace, according to the product's release notes. The same update asks users what to do when switching models mid-session: start a new session, compact the context and continue, or continue directly.…

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