Why uv?

[WeZZard]

What feature would you like to see?

Most AI agent coder distributed with npm and launched from a standalone command instead of a package manager of a particular programming language. Current uv-centric design is narrowing the potential markets.

Additional information

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[wangzhe258369]

uv is excellent

[WeZZard]

uv is excellent

What do you mean by "uv is excellent"? Is it the technology itself, or the way it improves the overall user experience?

The conventions for installing and launching CLI agents have already been shaped by earlier pioneers. Following these conventions isn’t just about tradition — it’s the best way to reduce friction and make users feel at ease.

[creativebastard]

kimi-cli is written in Python, so it’s only natural to ship it with UV; the other CLIs aren’t Python-based and lean on npm because they’re built on JavaScript-flavored tech. Python is a solid pick, and it’s great to see Kimi leaning into it.

[WeZZard]

Python programs still can be distributed with npm and launched from a standalone command.

[gbtami]

There is no such thing that "conventions for installing and launching CLI agents".
npm is used to install JavaScript packages. pip is used to install Python packages (and nowadays uv as well).
See https://www.milesweb.com/blog/technology-hub/npm-vs-pip/
Using npm to distribute a Python package is simply meaningless.

[WeZZard]

You are still talking about the technology. Sticking on this point won't democratize kimi-cli to non-professional users. However, other competitors can. They even offer home-brew-based approach or a more dependency-less curl a shell script approach.

[yihong0618]

I think release in homebrew is in the plan
cc @stdrc

[gbtami]

@WeZZard you are who is suggesting to use another technology to install kimi-cli not me lol. If you want to install something with npm you have to install npm first. If you want to install something with uv you have to install uv first. If you are so religious to use npm over pip/uv just use JavaScript agents. Don't try to evangelize on github please :)

[creativebastard]

Whatever the case may be, uv is a good choice for kimi given python, npm makes little sense. Perhaps Moonshot don't want to appeal to non professional users.

[WeZZard]

@gbtami Fascinating — I didn’t realise suggesting broader accessibility could count as an act of evangelism.
By that logic, every UX designer must be a missionary. 😌

[wiedymi]

Why python?

[markshao]

should upgrade to the latest version of uv , otherwise would caught exception

Caused by: TOML parse error at line 43, column 15
  |
43 | module-name = ["kimi_cli",]
  |               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
invalid type: sequence, expected a string

becaure old version not support sequence

[tool.uv.build-backend]
module-name = ["kimi_cli"]
source-exclude = ["tests/**/*", "src/kimi_cli/deps/**/*"]

[stdrc]

NPM is a great package manager. Claude Code and some other existing coding agents are also great applications. We respect them but we don't have to follow everything they did. We do have pre-built binaries distributed in our release assets but we don't see strong rationales to ship them with npm. At the end of the day, uv is just an equivalent to npm in Python ecosystem. The question would be "Why not uv?" if we shipped with npm.

We do have plan to release binaries with an install.sh and do auto-updating in Kimi CLI. Still cooking, stay tuned!