# Afk Kimi Review > Part of the afk pipeline. Runs Kimi (Kimi CLI) as the default final independent, read-only (prompt-requested) external review role after outer findings are resolved. Subject to ordered .afk/config.md gates and fallback priority. Triggers include "/afk-kimi-review", "run kimi review", "kimi gate". - **Type:** Skill - **Install:** `agentstack add skill-alvinshenssw-afk-afk-kimi-review` - **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior - **Seller:** [AlvinShenSSW](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/alvinshenssw) - **Installs:** 0 - **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml) - **Latest version:** 0.1.0 - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Upstream author:** [AlvinShenSSW](https://github.com/AlvinShenSSW) - **Source:** https://github.com/AlvinShenSSW/afk/tree/main/skills/afk-kimi-review - **Website:** https://github.com/AlvinShenSSW/afk ## Install ```sh agentstack add skill-alvinshenssw-afk-afk-kimi-review ``` Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent. ## About # afk-kimi-review An independent second-opinion review by Kimi (a *different* model), used as the default **final** role after internal review and all outer findings are resolved. Run the ordered `gates` profile from `.afk/config.md`, and never use a reviewer whose model matches the implementer or another role. Kimi reviews the diff read-only — requested in the prompt, not enforced by construction (Kimi drives git itself) — you triage and fix. The helper `kimi-gate.mjs` ships with this skill and travels with the plugin. ## Metering Metered like any external gate — keep invocations to a minimum. Batch admitted P1 and eligible lower-severity fixes into one content pass, self-review, then re-run once. Record every other disposition together at the end without editing a clean revision. ## Run it The bundled helper `kimi-gate.mjs` sits beside this SKILL.md. Locate its directory as `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/afk-kimi-review` if the env var is set, else `/skills/afk-kimi-review` from `.afk/config.md`, else this skill's own directory (the helper is its sibling). Resolve `.afk/` from the repository's main working tree — the first `worktree` line of `git worktree list --porcelain` — never the current directory, or a run from a linked worktree reads a different `.afk/` than the one `afk-init` wrote. If `.afk/` is absent, the `afk-init` bootstrap runs automatically first: ```text node "/kimi-gate.mjs" ``` Run it in the **background** with a generous timeout; redirect stdout to a file and read it when it completes. Pass through any target flag (`--base ` / `--commit ` / `--uncommitted`). Do not poll in a sleep loop. Pass `--implementer ` when another model wrote the change. In design mode (`--design`) the flag instead names the design's **author**, never the eventual code implementer — see `../afk/SKILL.md` ("Design-stage external gate"): declaring the code implementer there can hand a driver-authored design to the driver's own model for review. A persistent `implementer:` line in `.afk/config.md` also names the code implementer, and in design mode it can wrongly block that family's independent review of a driver-authored design — declare the design's author explicitly then: the per-run flag outranks the config line. **Design mode** (`--design `) reviews a design document's reasoning instead of a diff — the opt-in design-stage gate (see `../afk/SKILL.md`, "Design-stage external gate"). Kimi is pointed at the document on disk and reads it with its own tools (keeping a large doc off the argv). A missing or unreadable `--design` path fails loudly (`ERROR`, non-zero), never a skip. **The review is bounded** by `KIMI_REVIEW_TIMEOUT_MS` (default 45 min), with `AFK_REVIEW_TIMEOUT_MS` as the shared fallback. Kimi is a general agentic CLI, so nothing else ends a turn that stops converging. A review that outlives the bound is reported as a non-zero `ERROR`, never a `SKIPPED`: a hang says nothing about whether this reviewer is available, so it takes the role's transient retry rather than an immediate fallback to another family. Read the verdict between the `===== KIMI REVIEW (final message) =====` markers. Treat only column-0 marker lines as markers; the last END marker wins. `SKIPPED: …` (Kimi absent, logged out, or disabled via `KIMI_REVIEW_GATE=off`) is not a failure — report it and continue. `ERROR: …` means the review itself failed or timed out — read the transcript it names; never report an errored run as clean. `KIMI_GATE_FORCE_SHIM=1` forces the Windows brief-on-disk transport on any platform. It exists so that path is testable off Windows — `EINVAL` cannot be produced on POSIX — and it makes the review indirect (the brief travels by file reference). Never set it for a real review. One `ERROR` is **not** transient and must not be retried: `kimi rejected an argument this gate sent …`. The helper and the installed CLI disagree about the flag list, so every retry rejects the same flags and every fallback hides the defect — the failure mode that kept this gate reporting "produced no final message" on every review. Stop the round, report it, and fix the flag list against `kimi --help`. ## Handle findings (batch — minimise calls) Identical discipline to `afk-codex-review`: map every hypothesis to the frozen contract; admit P1 only on demonstrated evidence; batch-fix admitted P1 findings and only eligible lower-severity work; self-review once; re-run after content fixes; then record every other disposition without editing the clean revision or spending another paid round. Treat every reported finding as `UNTRIAGED`. Admit P1 only after mapping it to the frozen issue contract or an invariant, demonstrating a reachable trigger and wrong consequence, explaining why the current artifact cannot safely advance, and naming the minimal causal fix. Do not edit for an untriaged claim; record structural P2 for the operator-owned merge boundary, and defer minor or out-of-scope items without expanding the PR. When an admitted P1 already requires a content pass, batch-fix a verified lower-severity item only when it is in scope, shares that root cause or touched surface, adds no dependency, migration, public contract, or product choice, and needs no gate round beyond the P1 re-review. Otherwise record its disposition without editing; a lower-severity-only verdict never reopens a clean revision. Apply any invariant in `.afk/config.md` as an extra lens. ## Stop rule Stop when the loop-termination rule in `../afk/SKILL.md` ("External gate") holds: triage leaves no `UNTRIAGED`, `Contested`, or open admitted P1, and every lower-severity item has a recorded disposition that does not block the role stamp (a structural P2 may still bar auto-merge). That same verdict earns the role stamp only if it requires no content change; a content fix invalidates it and the role re-reviews the fixed revision. Report `CLEAN`, or `OUTSTANDING` with what remains. A clean pass is not authority to merge. ## Selection Kimi is the default final role, not a generic second pass. The operator's explicit ordered profile wins; otherwise the `afk` skill's role/fallback rule applies (skip the implementer's and already-used models). The provider is locked to final for later sequences; a substitution is recorded and resets only its provider-specific finding baseline. ## Setup (per machine, once) Optional and self-skipping. Install the Kimi CLI and log in; needs Node + git on PATH. Disable with `KIMI_REVIEW_GATE=off`. Config knobs: - `KIMI_REVIEW_MAX_BUFFER_BYTES` (default `67108864`, 64 MiB) — the output buffer bound; output past it aborts the run as an `ERROR`, never a truncated verdict. ## Source & license This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code. - **Author:** [AlvinShenSSW](https://github.com/AlvinShenSSW) - **Source:** [AlvinShenSSW/afk](https://github.com/AlvinShenSSW/afk) - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Homepage:** https://github.com/AlvinShenSSW/afk Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above. ## Pricing - **Free** — Free ## Security capabilities Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access: - **Network access:** no - **Filesystem access:** no - **Shell / process execution:** no - **Environment & secrets:** no - **Dynamic code execution:** no *"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.* ## Versions - **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source. ## Links - Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-alvinshenssw-afk-afk-kimi-review - Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/alvinshenssw - Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse --- Listed on AgentStack — the marketplace for AI agent skills and MCP servers. 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