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Weekly · Feb 19, 2026
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The big thing:
$7,000 in prizes at the Kilo DeveloperWeek
Hackathon—deadline is Friday at 10am PST.
Enter now →
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🔍 Review Mode: One-Click Fix Suggestions
Review mode now surfaces one-click suggestions to apply fixes
directly. Based on what the reviewer finds, it'll recommend
switching to Code, Debug, Architect, or Orchestrator mode—go
from "here's the problem" to "fix it" without extra
navigation.
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🧠 Claude Sonnet 4.6
Now supported across Anthropic, Bedrock, and Vertex providers.
Free for a week in Kilo for Slack Code Reviewer.
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🤖 New Models & Providers
Providers: Apertis,
Zenmux
Models: MiniMax M2.5,
MiniMax M2.5-highspeed, MiniMax M2.1-highspeed, GLM 5 (now
default for Z.ai), MiniMax 2.1 and GLM 4.7 on Fireworks.ai
Embedders: Voyage AI
support, custom embed dimensions for Ollama
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✨ Quality of Life
Agent Manager scroll fix, improved user message contrast with
theme-aware colors, better formatting for sub-cent token
costs, dev container persistence for threads and settings,
chars count in ListFiles tool.
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New Feature
Code Reviewer Roast Mode
Brutal, unfiltered PR feedback—the kind a very blunt senior
engineer might offer at 4pm on a Friday. "You named this
variable temp2. Temp for what? Temporary sanity?"
Try Roast Mode →
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🏙️ Kilo x Gas Town
Self-hosting Gas Town works, but you're signing up to own
every failure mode—persistent compute, key management across
providers, and being your own on-call when things break
overnight. Kilo x Gas Town handles all of that.
Learn more →
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🦞 KiloClaw
OpenClaw (209k+ GitHub stars) is the fastest-growing open
source AI agent project right now. It connects to 50+ chat
platforms, runs shell commands, controls browsers, manages
files, and remembers everything across sessions. KiloClaw
hosts it for you—one-click deploy, zero to running in under 60
seconds.
Join the waitlist →
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🎙️ The Kilo Show — This Friday
Join us Friday at 20:30 CET / 12:30 PM Eastern / 9:30 AM
Pacific. Five attendees win $50 credits + Kilo T-shirts.
Register now →
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📖 Auto Model: Stop Thinking About Which AI Model to Use
You're deep in a coding session, architecting with a powerful
reasoning model. Then you switch to implementation and realize
you're still burning through tokens for straightforward code
generation. The whole dance gets old fast.
Read more →
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This Week's Contributors 🎉
@theQuert – Apertis API
provider
@Astricaelus – MiniMax
M2.5 models
@nubol23 – Voyage AI
embedder support
@CoinAnole – Moonshot
coding endpoint fix
@Githubguy132010 – Dev
container persistence, Agent Manager scroll fix, user message
colors, file deletion checkbox fix
@Patel230 –
maxReadFileLine=0 unlimited, symlink handling
@mikij – Agent Behaviour
settings visual fixes
@Drilmo – Filter internal
verification tags
@wombatepiclandingstudio –
Context token indicator flicker fix
@benzntech –
MODEL_NO_TOOLS_USED error loop fix
@abdulrahimpds – Settings
search bar UI fixes, total API cost persistence
@Madrawn – Slash commands
in tool_result blocks
@Leoyzen – Preserve
reasoning content in OpenAI format
@rayss868 – Honor explicit
'disable' for reasoning effort
@hdcodedev – Kill Command
button reliability, prevent duplicate tool IDs, images lost on
edit fix
@SenatusSPQR1 – NanoGPT
native reasoning field extraction
@shssoichiro – Custom
embed dimensions for Ollama
@evanjacobson – Prevent
MCP server restarts, fix provider settings leak, prevent abort
listener memory leak
@dacsang97 – Anthropic
extended thinking compatibility
@Schrolli91 – Better
formatting for low cost values
@Neonsy – ZenMux context
window detection, GLM 5 support and Z.ai default model
update
@hsp-sz – Zenmux
provider
@otterDeveloper – MiniMax
2.1, GLM 4.7, and model updates for Fireworks.ai
@YuriNachos – Disable zsh
history expansion
@naga-k – Prevent
thinkingLevel being sent to unsupporting Gemini models
@CaiDingxian – Chars count
in ListFiles tool
Want to contribute?
Check out the repo →
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