Anaconda Acquires Kilo Code to Unify AI Development from First Prompt to Production
Anaconda Inc. has acquired Kilo Code, an open-source, model-agnostic platform that embeds artificial intelligence (AI) agents directly into developer workflows.
The acquisition integrates Kilo’s rapid-growth community of over three million developers into Anaconda’s expanding enterprise AI-native development ecosystem. The transaction positions Anaconda to secure the entire software development lifecycle, from the developer’s initial prompt to final enterprise deployment.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
The deal represents a major strategic step in Anaconda’s bid to address a critical industry bottleneck: The estimated 80% of enterprise AI projects that fail to reach production. By combining Kilo’s front-end AI agents with Anaconda’s secure package distribution and its recently acquired Outerbounds orchestration platform, Anaconda aims to create a highly secure, continuous pipeline for AI-native software development.
Kilo’s platform is built for agentic engineering, where AI systems perform complex, multi-step development tasks such as planning features, modifying files, and debugging codebases rather than just offering simple line suggestions.
Operating seamlessly across popular tools like VS Code and JetBrains, Kilo’s model-agnostic gateway routes tasks across more than 500 different AI models. This routing flexibility helps enterprises manage spiraling token costs, an increasingly vital capability as Kilo currently orchestrates nearly 10 trillion tokens monthly.
The enterprise appeal of the deal lies in marrying this developer flexibility with robust corporate oversight.
“Every enterprise is asking the same question: how do we let our builders move as fast as AI now allows, without losing control of what ships or failing a compliance audit?” Anaconda CEO David DeSanto said in a statement.
By connecting Anaconda’s security scanners directly to Kilo’s developer interface, companies can enforce model and package policies from the very first keystroke.
The transaction closely follows Anaconda’s April acquisition of Outerbounds, the company behind the open-source Metaflow framework. Together, these moves establish unified, three-tiered architecture for modern development.
Kilo Code provides an agentic workspace for initial coding, debugging, and model selection. Anaconda Core governs package security, vulnerabilities, and reproducible environments. Outerbounds orchestrates production-grade workflows and scalable cloud execution.
Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder of Kilo Code and executive chair at GitLab, praised the synergy. “Kilo has many enthusiastic users doing agentic engineering with the freedom to use any model,” Sijbrandij said. “Anaconda spent over a decade building enterprise trust from packages to secure environments. The combination complements each other very well.”
For existing Kilo users, the platform will continue operating with no immediate changes to its products, pricing, or customer support. Kilo CEO Scott Breitenother noted that joining Anaconda, whose ecosystem reaches over 52 million users, will help Kilo expand into large enterprises that require strict governance. Anaconda plans to share deeper product integration details in the coming months as they align their technologies.
