better agents did not recognize the Kilo Code CLI.

[7sohaib]

Title: better-agents doesn’t detect installed agent CLIs (all show “not installed”) + auto-install fails with spawn npm ENOENT

Description:
When running better-agents setup and selecting a preferred coding assistant, the prompt lists multiple CLIs (Cursor Agent / Claude Code / Kilocode / Gemini CLI / etc.) but all appear as “(not installed)” even though they are already installed on my machine (only Crush is not installed). See screenshot.

If I choose Kilocode CLI and accept auto-install, it fails with:

Installation failed: spawn npm ENOENT

Steps to reproduce:

Run better-agents setup (the interactive prompt that asks: “What is your preferred coding assistant for building the agent?”)

Observe the list: every CLI shows “(not installed)” even though installed

(Optional) Select Kilocode → confirm auto-install → error spawn npm ENOENT

Expected:
Installed CLIs should be detected and shown as available (not “not installed”).

Actual:
No CLIs are detected; all show “not installed”. Auto-install also fails with spawn npm ENOENT.

Environment:

better-agents version: 0.1.20
Browser/OS: windows/VSCode