Kiro

Kiro is an agentic AI coding platform from AWS that structures AI-assisted coding with spec-driven development to bring engineering rigor to agentic development. It’s built around an integrated development environment (IDE), but it reaches well beyond the editor.

Kiro runs the same agent across several surfaces: a downloadable desktop IDE for macOS, Windows, and Linux, a CLI for the same platforms, a browser-based web interface that runs agent sessions in isolated cloud sandboxes, an iOS app in early access through TestFlight for steering those cloud sessions, and Crew, an open-source personal agent that runs locally or on your own remote hardware. It can turn natural-language prompts into structured specs and then into working code, documentation, and tests. Kiro also checks specs for contradictions and gaps using automated reasoning, verifies the resulting code with property-based tests that assert rules across all inputs, and can implement tasks with parallel agents that run locally or in the cloud.

It includes agent hooks for workflow automation and built-in support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), AGENTS.md, and Skills.md. It also supports Powers, plugins in the open Agent Plugins format that load specialized tools and domain knowledge on demand instead of filling the context window up front. Partner Powers include Datadog, Dynatrace, Figma, Neon, Netlify, Postman, Stripe, Supabase, Strands SDK, and AWS Aurora.

Kiro can also import your existing Visual Studio Code settings and themes, along with Open VSX-compatible extensions, to ease migration, and it’s designed to keep developers in control while agents handle multi-step tasks.

Official website: kiro.dev

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