Can I use Kilo Code from my phone?

Yes, through the CLI it ships inside its extension. The agent runs on your computer; the phone sends tasks, shows what it wants to do and takes your decision.

Do I need VS Code open?

The extension has to be installed, because that is where the CLI lives. The agent itself is driven as a command-line program.

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Running Kilo Code from your phone

Kilo Code lives inside VS Code but ships a real CLI in its extension folder — which is why it can be driven from a phone at all, and why it is not found the way the other agents are.

Updated September 2026

What Kilo Code is

A VS Code extension for agentic coding that, unlike most editor extensions, ships a command-line agent inside the extension folder. That CLI speaks the Agent Client Protocol — it is a fork of OpenCode and answers the protocol the same way, which is why it needed no new protocol work to be supported.

Because the binary lives inside the extension rather than on your PATH, it is detected where it actually is. An agent found in one place and launched from another is the defect that shows up as "installed, but the conversation never opens".

The modes travel with you

Kilo Code has its own set of modes — code, ask, debug, orchestrator and plan — and they are a setting on the conversation, not a different agent. On the phone they appear as a setting you can change mid-conversation, which is genuinely useful away from the desk: switch to ask or plan when you want to think through a change without the agent starting to edit.

Kilo Code vs OpenCode vs Claude Code

	Kilo Code	OpenCode	Claude Code
Lives in	A VS Code extension, with a CLI inside it	The terminal	The terminal (and an extension)
Models	Provider of your choice	Provider of your choice	Anthropic
Distinctive	Modes: code / ask / debug / orchestrator / plan	Model-agnostic, plus the Zen gateway	Tightest integration with its own models

Setting it up

Have Kilo Code installed and signed in on your Mac or PC, the way you already run it.
Install VibePager on the same machine. It finds the agents that are there and lists only those.
Open vibepager.com/app on your phone, pair once with the code shown on the computer, pick a folder, and start.

What is the same for every agent

Kilo Code runs on your machine, on your files, with your own account or API key. Nothing is uploaded.
Phone-to-machine traffic is end-to-end encrypted; the relay in the middle has no key.
You choose which folders the phone is allowed to open.
The app lists only the agents actually installed — an agent you do not have never shows up as a broken option.
One subscription covers up to 3 computers and 6 phones or browsers.

Questions

Can I use Kilo Code from my phone?: Yes, through the CLI it ships inside its extension. The agent runs on your computer; the phone sends tasks, shows what it wants to do and takes your decision.
Kilo Code vs OpenCode?: Kilo Code is a fork of OpenCode wrapped in a VS Code extension, with its own modes and its own model routing. If you live in VS Code, Kilo; if you live in the terminal, OpenCode.
Do I need VS Code open?: The extension has to be installed, because that is where the CLI lives. The agent itself is driven as a command-line program.

VibePager runs the agents on your own machine and puts the controls on your phone.

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