Your AI Coding Agent Should Live Where the Important Conversations Happen

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This article explores how AI developer tools are moving beyond the IDE to reduce context switching across Slack, cloud agents, and coding workflows.
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Most AI dev tools live in the IDE, but half the work starts in Slack threads, which means you spend your day copy-pasting context between the two. Kilo for Slack is a bot you @-mention in any thread. It reads the conversation, accesses your connected repos, and either answers or spins up a Cloud Agent that opens a PR. Same credits, same 500+ models, same Sessions that carry across VS Code, JetBrains, and the CLI. Not a separate chatbot wearing a Slack costume, the same Kilo agent, just reachable from where the work already is.