Which public repos are easiest for Kimi CLI to work in?

Repos from GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, ranked by their Kimi CLI score rather than the average across every agent. gitlab-org/cli leads with 98.3.

The methodology lists the weight Kimi CLI gives each check and the documentation it comes from.

Kimi CLI — Reads AGENTS.md as its native instruction surface (root or `.kimi-code/AGENTS.md`) per Moonshot's Kimi Code docs, and `/init` generates one. Its docs name no CLAUDE.md fallback, but the check passes on CLAUDE.md too. Runs shell commands step-by-step under an approval gate rather than a sandbox VM, and dispatches `explore` sub-agents with isolated contexts to map a codebase, so a large tree costs it less than a single-context agent.
Leaderboard — page 3 of 12 for Kimi CLI
RankRepoStarsScoreExternal link
65calcom/cal.diyGitHub49k ★
87.0
open
66modelcontextprotocol/serversGitHub91.2k ★
86.6
open
67scikit-learn/scikit-learnGitHub67.6k ★
86.6
open
68meilisearch/meilisearchGitHub59.6k ★
86.5
open
69google/osv-scannerGitHub11.2k ★
86.5
open
70gitlab-org/gitlabGitLab6.2k ★
86.5
open
71astral-sh/uvGitHub90.7k ★
86.1
open
72oxc-project/oxcGitHub23k ★
86.1
open
73mui/material-uiGitHub99.2k ★
85.9
open
74psf/requestsGitHub54.6k ★
85.9
open
75psf/blackGitHub41.9k ★
85.9
open
76neovim/neovimGitHub103k ★
85.8
open
77vllm-project/vllmGitHub93.7k ★
85.6
open
78sveltejs/kitGitHub20.8k ★
85.5
open
79caddyserver/caddyGitHub77.9k ★
85.2
open
80MoonshotAI/kimi-codeGitHub7.8k ★
84.9
open
81Textualize/richGitHub57.5k ★
84.8
open
82sqlalchemy/sqlalchemyGitHub12.2k ★
84.8
open
83novuhq/novuGitHub40.1k ★
84.5
open
84gitlab-org/gitalyGitLab437 ★
84.2
open
85anomalyco/opencodeGitHub213k ★
84.1
open
86Shopify/cliGitHub753 ★
83.8
open
87ollama/ollamaGitHub182.9k ★
83.7
open
88colinhacks/zodGitHub44.1k ★
83.7
open
89data-privacy-stack/presidioGitHub11.3k ★
83.7
open
90zed-industries/zedGitHub91.6k ★
83.5
open
91vapor/vaporGitHub26.2k ★
83.4
open
92langflow-ai/langflowGitHub155.6k ★
83.2
open
93mermaid-js/mermaidGitHub90.6k ★
83.1
open
94withastro/astroGitHub63.2k ★
83.1
open
95directus/directusGitHub38.4k ★
83.1
open
96apache/flinkGitHub26.4k ★
83.1
open

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