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NAME
kiro — Kiro is AWS's AI-powered IDE focused on spec-driven development.
METADATA
TYPE
IDE
IDE
PRICE
Freemium
Freemium
VERIFIED
2026-03-16
2026-03-16
STATUS
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
LINKS
CONFIG FILES
DESCRIPTION
Kiro is AWS's AI-powered IDE focused on spec-driven development. It uses .kiro/steering/ for project instructions with three inclusion modes (always, auto, manual), .kiro/hooks/ for event-driven automations, and supports AGENTS.md for cross-tool compatibility. Global steering resides in ~/.kiro/steering/.
SEE ALSO
AWS2026-03-16KIRO(1)