Kimi used a forwarded SSH agent and VM API to publish a site on a new machine
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-07-21
- A user asked Kimi to publish something on a new VM and make it public, then went to bed.
- According to the post, Kimi figured out how to use the user’s forwarded SSH agent and called the SSH VM API to create a new virtual machine.
- The anecdote is a concrete example of an agent taking actions across infrastructure tools, not just generating text.
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