The name
Kimün and Madu
Where the name comes from, and who the pudú beside it is.
Kimün
Kimün means "knowledge" or "wisdom" in Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche people.
The name says what the tool is after: that you know your code before you change it. The command is km, its two consonants.
Madu
Madu is a pudú, the smallest deer in the world, which lives in the forests of southern Chile and Argentina.
She is a machi: among the Mapuche, the machi holds the knowledge, heals and advises. She wears a pink band around her head, in the manner of the trarilonko.
Kalku, of the same family
Madu is the sister of Kalku, the mascot of kalku, a mutation testing tool. Kalku breaks code on purpose to learn whether your tests notice; Madu measures and remembers.