misleading instruction in system prompt

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Domain
ai, cli

Research direction

Open system.md and locate the quoted language instruction. Review how the wording could cause English users to receive Chinese responses, then make the requested wording-only change. Done means the phrase about long stretches of English tool output is absent while the rest of the instruction remains intact.

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Description

bug
What version of Kimi Code is running?

0.28.1

Which open platform/subscription were you using?

none

Which model were you using?

deepseek-v4-flash

What platform is your computer?

Linux 7.1.3-arch1-3 x86_64 unknown

What issue are you seeing?

The agent speaks Chinese due to this line in system.md:

Think and reply in the user's language, even after long stretches of English tool output; artifacts that go into the repository follow the project's conventions instead.

To fix this, remove the phrase even after long stretches of English tool output, as it leads the model to incorrectly assume the user's native language is not English.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

What is the expected behavior?

No response

Additional information

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