Kimi Work
The desktop app that works on your files and your browser, next to web chat.
What Kimi Work is
Kimi Work is Moonshot's desktop agent for knowledge work. The product introduction describes it as a local app for Mac and Windows that can run many agents, operate a browser, and turn material into a finished report, slides, or a spreadsheet. It combines the web product's long-document chat, the browser extension's page actions, and Kimi Code's ability to touch files and run commands.
A search for Kimi Work is this app, not the website chat and not Kimi Claw. Web chat is the fastest place to ask a question. Work is the place where the job already lives in a folder on the machine in front of you. The introduction says the two are meant to sit side by side.
Files, browser, and schedules
Work can read and write local files and produce the office files the introduction lists: presentations, spreadsheets, reports, PDFs, and sites. Browser actions go through the extension (formerly WebBridge). Because the extension uses the browser profile you already signed into, the agent can continue a session instead of logging in again. That is useful and it is the risk: approve actions that change an account.
Scheduled tasks run on that computer. If the machine is asleep or the app is quit, a desktop schedule does not fire. Kimi's own split, described across the Work introduction and the Claw notes in the agent help, is that always-on work belongs in the cloud product. Keep the computer awake only when you intend Work to keep going.
What a finished Work run looks like
The introduction describes finished files: a report, a spreadsheet, slides, a PDF, or a small site, built from local material and from pages the extension read. Ask for one of those, with a filename and a folder. 'Research this' leaves the file somewhere you will not find. 'Write vendor-notes.md in the folder I opened, with a heading per vendor and a source link under each claim' is a run you can review.
Review before you send the file onward. Agents copy numbers from the wrong row and invent citations. Open the spreadsheet and check a sample of cells against the source page. If the run used the browser, look at which account was active in that profile. Work is powerful because it is on your machine. That is the same reason a sloppy prompt is expensive.
Install, account, and credits
Download Work from Kimi's site, not from a reposted archive. Sign in with your Kimi account, the same identity as login on the web. Then install the browser extension from Work's plugin list if you want page control. The extension help page's sample path is: open Work, switch to Work mode, install the extension, and give it a page task.
The membership overview puts Kimi Work on the shared credit pool, next to slides, research, and Kimi Code. The app can be installed without a paid plan. The agent steps spend credits once you are past the free allowance. Pricing has the tier table. Swarm inside Work follows the same concurrency rules as Agent Swarm: higher tiers allow more subagents at once.
Questions
- Is Kimi Work free?
- The desktop app is a download from Kimi. Agent features draw on membership credits. Paid plans start at $19 a month on the help-center table checked 25 September 2026.
- Does Kimi Work run when the laptop is closed?
- No. Scheduled desktop tasks need the computer awake and the app running. Kimi Claw is the cloud agent for work that should continue after you close the lid.
- Mac or Windows?
- Kimi's Work introduction says Mac and Windows. Install only from Kimi's own download page so you get the build they currently ship.
- How does Work use the browser?
- Through the Kimi browser extension, formerly WebBridge. It can open pages, click, fill forms, and download, using your existing browser login.
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Checked 2026-09-25. Prices and limits can change on the live help pages.