Kie, the spend-guarded media CLI for AI agents

Why it surfaced

This is a focused piece of agent plumbing with unusually concrete safeguards: per-task caps, daily budgets, balance checks before requests, redaction, no callbacks, and no runtime dependencies. Its examples show the whole loop—from a plain-language prompt to a saved PNG or MP4 with credits and file paths reported back to the agent.

Kie lets terminal users and coding agents generate images and video through KIE.ai while keeping API credentials in the OS keychain.