Kilo for Slack adds free Claude Opus 4.6

This is a smart wedge for chat-native coding workflows: Kilo is using free access to a top-tier model to make Slack feel less like a notification layer and more like an engineering surface.

• –Free Opus 4.6 removes the biggest barrier to trying high-end reasoning inside Slack: token anxiety
• –Kilo’s pitch is broader than “ask the bot a question” — it wants to turn thread context into real code changes and PRs
• –For teams already living in Slack, that could shift more debugging and handoff work out of the IDE and into shared conversations
• –Shipping this inside a broader weekly roundup also shows Kilo is iterating the surrounding agent, review, and workflow UX — not just swapping models