Kimi K3 / agentflows stack

Work order Nº 03 — orchestrated

Kimi K3 — agentflows stackKimmy works here.

The default worker of the agentflows stack. 262K context, ~$0 marginal cost.

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Designation

The Worker

Default by designation.

Kimi K3 is the default worker of the agentflows stack — the agent that gets the ticket first. It reviews, implements, plans, and orchestrates. Everything it ships passes through structural human gates.

Economics

Cost

Marginal cost: approximately zero.

K3 runs on a flat-rate subscription — quota-limited, never metered per call. Send it another task; the invoice doesn't move.

Memory

Context

262K tokens of working memory.

One window, wide enough for the repo, the diff, and the argument about the diff.

Recall

Review

100% recall. Obvious bugs and subtle ones.

In repo evals, K3 caught every bug — the loud ones and the quiet ones — tying Claude Sonnet at ~1/7 the cost.

Throughput

Execution

110/110 tests. 8 turns.

The most turn-efficient implementer measured: 8 turns to a passing build, versus 20 for legacy and 15 for Sonnet.

Tradeoff

Planning

Tied with Sonnet at 4/5 — with an asterisk.

Judges scored K3's plans equal to Sonnet's: stronger on concision, weaker on verification. It writes the plan well. It checks the plan less well. That's what the gates are for.

Strong plans. Weak verification. Human gates.

Command

Orchestration

Four agents. 3 P0. 8 P1. Every citation real.

In an AgentSwarm run, 4 read-only K3 subagents surfaced 3 P0 and 8 P1 issues — 6/6 citations verified. K3 also conducts MiniMax-M3 cross-checkers and Claude councils, all under structural human gates.

Measured

Field data

262K
context window
~$0
marginal cost · flat-rate, quota-limited
100%
bug recall, obvious & subtle
~1/7
cost vs. Claude Sonnet in review
110/110
tests passed, coding eval
8
turns to passing build · vs. 20 legacy, 15 Sonnet
4/5
planning, judge-tied with Sonnet
−46% / +11%
caveman words, condensing / generating
3P0 + 8P1
found by 4 read-only K3 subagents
6/6
citations verified