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Kiro

AI-powered IDE by AWS with spec-driven development and agent hooks for structured workflows.

Overview

Kiro is an AI-powered development environment built on VS Code, developed by AWS. It features spec-driven development (requirements to design to tasks), agent hooks for automated workflows, steering files for project-specific context, and MCP server integration. Kiro supports the SKILL.md open standard for agent skills, making it compatible with skills developed for Gemini CLI and other supporting tools. Its structured approach to development makes it particularly effective for enterprise teams.

Features

  • Spec-driven development
  • Agent hooks
  • Steering files
  • MCP servers
  • VS Code based
  • Autopilot mode
  • Supervised mode

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