Moonshot’s Kimi Work brings up to 300 agents to desktops

Moonshot AI has released Kimi Work, a downloadable desktop agent for Apple Silicon macOS and Windows that runs on a user’s machine and is currently in internal testing.

The app can read and manipulate local files, drive a real Chrome or Edge browser session via the company’s WebBridge extension and execute scheduled tasks. Kimi Work can edit PDFs, organize folders, extract data from active web sessions, run background Python scripts, compile findings into PowerPoint or Excel files and send reports by email.

Kimi Work includes a built-in scheduler with daily, hourly and conditional triggers and an option to keep the computer awake for overnight jobs. Tasks run only while the local machine is active; Moonshot’s separate cloud product offers continuous 24/7 operation when needed.

A feature called Agent Swarm lets the app spawn multiple sub-agents to work in parallel on different parts of a task. Subscription tiers limit the number of concurrent sub-agents, with the highest paid plans allowing up to 300 parallel agents for high-volume workflows.

The agent uses a local file layer that gives it access to mounted folders and it shares the same browser sessions and cookies stored on the machine. Actions therefore occur inside the user’s logged-in environment rather than in a remote sandbox.

Kimi Work runs on the company’s Kimi K2.6 model, a mixture-of-experts architecture released in April. Moonshot describes K2.6 as a roughly one-trillion-parameter model that activates about 32 billion parameters per token and supports a 256,000-token context window. Model inference can be routed through Moonshot’s cloud API, and the model weights are available for organizations that can host them under a Modified MIT License on a public model repository.

The app’s access to real browser sessions and local files raises privacy and safety issues. An agent that controls a logged-in browser can access bank accounts, email and internal company tools saved in that session. Moonshot provides an ask-before-acting mode that requires user approval before files are modified or code is executed and recommends that mode as the default.

Kimi Work is free to download but meaningful features require a paid subscription. The Moderato tier starts at $19 per month and includes K2.6 access plus research and coding tools. Allegretto at $39 per month expands the Agent Swarm with a limited number of sub-agents. Allegro at $99 per month and Vivace at $199 per month unlock the full 300-agent swarm and higher professional volumes.

The desktop agent market includes products that run in cloud sandboxes and offerings that provide local control without coordinated parallel agents. Kimi Work combines local file and browser access with a large parallel-agent capability and is distributed alongside Moonshot’s WebBridge extension and cloud hosting option.