JetBrains CLI Pin

Pin the Kilo JetBrains plugin to the latest released CLI, unpin it to use the local repo CLI, or fresh-regenerate the local CLI while unpinned. Every command first cleans all CLI/pin build artifacts and binaries in the current worktree so the result never carries state from a previous run.

Run all commands from the repository root of the worktree you want to affect. Paths are relative, so they resolve to the current worktree, not the main checkout.

Two Controls

The plugin's CLI behavior is governed by two independent values:

Control	Location	Meaning
Pin mode	packages/kilo-jetbrains/gradle.properties -> kilo.cli.pinned	true = download the released CLI at build/connect time. false = build and bundle the local repo CLI.
Pinned version	packages/kilo-jetbrains/package.json -> version	Which GitHub CLI release is downloaded and generated from when pinned=true.

"Pin to latest" means kilo.cli.pinned=true and package.json set to the latest stable CLI release. "Unpin" means kilo.cli.pinned=false with a freshly built local CLI bundled.

Commands

bun .kilo/skills/jetbrains-cli-pin/script/cli-pin.ts <command> [--no-verify]

Command	Steps
pin	Clean -> set kilo.cli.pinned=true -> remove the repo-CLI Bun path hint -> bump package.json to latest release (via set-pin.ts --latest, which validates release assets) -> verify with a cold gradlew clean typecheck.
unpin	Clean -> set kilo.cli.pinned=false -> write the repo-CLI Bun path hint -> :backend:buildRepoCli (fresh CLI) -> :backend:stageRepoCli -> assert staged kilo-cli.zip -> verify with gradlew typecheck.
regen	Fast dev loop while unpinned: refresh the repo-CLI Bun path hint -> rm -rf dist -> buildRepoCli -> stageRepoCli. Refuses to run unless kilo.cli.pinned=false.
clean	Run the shared artifact clean only.

--no-verify skips the gradle verification build (rewrites + clean only). Use it when offline or without Java 21.

Cleaned Artifacts

clean() runs ./gradlew clean plus targeted deletes. All paths are gitignored, so tracked files are never touched. The clean removes the stale artifacts that otherwise leak across a pin/unpin flip:

Artifact	Path
Repo CLI binaries	packages/opencode/dist/
Staged CLI archive	packages/kilo-jetbrains/backend/build/generated/kilo-cli-res/kilo-cli.zip
Generated props / checksums / OpenAPI client	packages/kilo-jetbrains/backend/build/generated/
Compiled resources (bundled zip on classpath)	packages/kilo-jetbrains/backend/build/resources/
CLI download cache	packages/kilo-jetbrains/backend/build/cli-cache/

The staged kilo-cli.zip is the nastiest leak: once it lands in backend/build/resources/main/ from an unpinned build, runtime prefers the bundled zip over downloading. A full clean is the only reliable reset.

Bun Path Hint

In repo CLI mode, Gradle's generateOpenApiSpec task runs the local CLI source through bun run --conditions=browser ./src/index.ts generate. IDE-launched Gradle runs can have a stripped PATH where bun isn't resolvable. The unpin/regen commands write an ignored, worktree-local hint:

packages/kilo-jetbrains/.gradle/kilo-cli-pin.properties

The file contains bun.path=<absolute path> and is consumed by backend/build.gradle.kts for repo CLI tasks. pin removes it because pinned mode should not depend on local Bun.

Notes

• Verification builds pass --no-configuration-cache so the changed kilo.cli.pinned value is re-read instead of served from the on-disk Gradle configuration cache.
• The pin verification is a cold build: it downloads the pinned CLI release via generateOpenApiSpec and needs network access plus Java 21. Use --no-verify offline.
• kilo.cli.pinned=false is dev-only and not releasable. Production Gradle builds, script/build-version.sh, and the release scripts hard-fail on false -- run pin before releasing.

Related

• Version-bump and release-gating logic lives in the /release-jetbrains command (.kilo/command/release-jetbrains.md); this skill reuses its set-pin.ts and pin-common.ts helpers from .kilo/skills/release-jetbrains/script/.
• Background on the build wiring: the "CLI Pinning, Unpinning, and Bumping" section of the jetbrains-dev skill (.kilo/skills/jetbrains-dev/SKILL.md).