Kimi Code Made Crystal Clear · chapter 2: Core Concepts: Models, Membership, and the Agentic Loop
The map of the machine
2026-08-31
One session sits at the center, drawing a model from the engine bay on the left and acting on your repo through the guards on the right. Results loop back into the context, sub-agent satellites work in contexts of their own, and every request spends from the quota gauges below. Later chapters zoom into one region at a time.
Below: the paragraph from the book that builds this idea, then the diagram itself (Figure 2.1), and a recap. About a minute of reading.
You now hold the moving parts: a menu of engines, a loop that acts, a gate that guards it. Figure 2.1 assembles them into one machine, the anchor diagram of this book: later chapters do not introduce new machinery, they zoom into one region of this map at a time. The region you have not toured yet, the quota gauges along the bottom, is where this chapter goes next.
Recap
- The idea: One session sits at the center, drawing a model from the engine bay on the left and acting on your repo through the guards on the right.
- The picture: Figure 2.1, from chapter 2 ("Core Concepts: Models, Membership, and the Agentic Loop") of Kimi Code Made Crystal Clear.
- Go deeper: the chapter builds this step by step, with recipes and sources at the end.
This diagram is one of many in Kimi Code Made Crystal Clear.
Every chapter opens with the gist, draws the hard ideas, and ends with recipes and sources.
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