kimchi

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Kimchi is a terminal coding agent built on the pi-mono SDK that treats model selection as a routing problem: an orchestrator classifies each request and delegates to planner, builder, reviewer, explorer, and researcher roles, each of which can run on a different model or pool. Tier-based routing escalates complex work to heavier models and tags every request with a phase for cost attribution, and RTK-based hooks compress tool output to cut token spend. A cross-session project mode called Ferment persists goal-phase-step state through a deterministic state machine with crash recovery. It is used by developers who want per-role model economics in the terminal without abandoning Claude Code or Cursor configurations.