Kindly Logo

Kindly

Sign inGet started
Back to Home
Version 8.53.3

Kindly IDE

The Cursor for Robots

AI-powered robotics IDE with physics validation, visual behavior trees, and one-click ROS2 builds. Design, validate, and deploy faster.

Physics Linter

Real-time validation of inertias, joints, and collisions

One-Click Builds

Automatic environment sourcing for colcon builds

Behavior Tree Editor

Visual drag-and-drop editor for BehaviorTree.CPP

Multi-Format Export

Export to URDF, SDF, and MJCF with auto-fixes

AI-Powered Design

Natural language to robot structure generation

Physics Simulation

Interactive 3D preview with Rapier physics

Installation

  1. 1Download the DMG file for your Mac
  2. 2Open the DMG and drag Kindly IDE to Applications
  3. 3Open Kindly IDE from Applications
  4. 4Open Settings (⌘+,) to add your LLM API key

Release History

v8.53.3January 1, 2026
  • Release notes available on GitHub
v8.53.2January 1, 2026
  • Release notes available on GitHub
v8.53.1December 30, 2025
  • Release notes available on GitHub
v8.53.0December 30, 2025
  • Release notes available on GitHub
v8.52.1December 29, 2025
  • 🔮 Ghost text suggestions that appear as you type
  • 📝 Context-aware completions based on cursor position
  • 🏷️ Automatic link name suggestions in parent/child attributes
  • ⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts: Cmd+I to trigger, Tab to accept
  • 📋 Snippets for common URDF structures
  • New urdf-completions.ts with comprehensive URDF schema
v8.52.0December 29, 2025
  • Build 4-legged robots from natural language ("Build me a robot like Spot")
  • Proper branching structure: body + 4 legs with hip/knee joints
  • 16 DOF, 28 links, 27 joints for complete quadruped morphology
  • Axis color coding: Red (X), Green (Y), Blue (Z) - standard RGB=XYZ convention
  • Joint limit arcs: Visual range-of-motion indicators for revolute joints
  • Axis arrows: Show rotation direction at each joint
v0.8.5December 29, 2025
  • Release notes available on GitHub
v0.8.4December 28, 2025
  • Release notes available on GitHub
v0.8.3December 28, 2025
  • Release notes available on GitHub
v0.8.2December 28, 2025
  • Google Gemini Streaming - Fixed SSE streaming format by adding &alt=sse parameter
  • Google Gemini Images - Fixed viewport screenshot handling with correct inline_data format
  • Google Tool Calls - Fixed tool call/result format conversion (functionCall/functionResponse)
  • Stream Parser Refactor - Extracted stream parsers into providers/ directory for better maintainability (~346 lines removed from conversational-agent.ts)
v0.8.1December 28, 2025
  • Robot Component Library - Browse and import robot components from the Kindly Marketplace directly within Kindly IDE. Search by manufacturer, category, or capabilities.
  • Conversational Agent - New AI assistant with streaming responses and markdown rendering for natural robot design conversations.
  • Viewport Capture - Screenshot functionality for capturing viewport renders.
  • Mesh Builder - Refactored robot mesh generation with better geometry handling and primitive support.
  • Forward Kinematics - Enhanced kinematic calculations for more accurate joint positioning.
  • Chat Panel - Improved message display with syntax highlighting and tool call visualization.
v0.8.0December 28, 2025
  • Production Environment Detection - App now properly detects and connects to production APIs with explicit configuration rather than fallbacks.
  • CI/CD Improvements - Build pipeline now explicitly injects all required environment variables for production releases.
v0.7.12December 27, 2025
  • E2E Test Stability - Disabled sandbox for CI Linux runners to fix test failures
v0.7.9December 26, 2025
  • Private Repo Auto-Updates - Update proxy now authenticates with GitHub API to fetch assets from private repositories. Binary downloads use signed S3 URLs via GitHub API redirect.
  • Manifest URL Rewriting - Update manifests (latest-mac.yml) now contain absolute proxy URLs, ensuring electron-updater downloads through our proxy instead of directly from GitHub.
  • "retry is not a function" Error - Fixed electron-updater bundling issue by adding explicit builder-util-runtime dependency.
v0.7.8December 26, 2025
  • Auto-Updater Manifest - Fixed update manifest generation by adding --publish never flag to electron-builder. The latest-mac.yml, latest.yml, and latest-linux.yml files are now properly generated and uploaded to GitHub releases.
  • Model Selector - Deployed list-models edge function to Supabase. Model selector now dynamically fetches latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google APIs instead of using stale fallback list.

View all releases →

macOS 10.12+ • Windows 10+ • Linux coming soon

© 2026 Kindly Robotics