MoonshotAI / MoonshotAI/kimi-cli
Feature Request: Add default_skills config for auto-activating skills on session start
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Description
What feature would you like to see?
A config option to automatically activate specific skills when a new session starts, without requiring the user to manually trigger them via slash commands.
Motivation
Users who rely on specific skills for every session (e.g., communication style skills like caveman mode, or workflow skills like git-commits) currently have to remember to type the slash command every time they start Kimi. This is repetitive and easy to forget.
Proposed Solution
Add a top-level default_skills key to config.toml:
default_skills = ["caveman", "git-commits"]
Behavior:
- On session start, Kimi reads this list and auto-invokes each skill as if the user had typed
/skill:<name>. - If a skill name does not exist, log a warning and skip it (do not fail startup).
- Default value is an empty list
[], so the change is fully backward compatible. - Works alongside existing AGENTS.md and system prompt injection — skills are applied after system prompt setup but before the first user turn.
Scope
This request is intentionally minimal: just automatic activation of already-discovered skills via config. It does not cover skill auto-discovery paths (already solved by extra_skill_dirs in #2044) or rules systems.
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Research direction
Start by locating the config.toml loader, session-start entry point, and existing /skill: handling. Trace how skills are discovered and invoked alongside AGENTS.md and system prompt setup; done means applying configured skills before the first user turn, warning and continuing for unknown names, and preserving the empty-list default.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100