Kiro AI
Overview
Kiro AI is an AI-powered IDE that transforms user prompts into specifications and structured tasks to accelerate prototype development and collaboration. It automates repetitive coding tasks with AI agents, supports multimodal input, and integrates with VS Code while ensuring security and privacy.
From the official site
Kiro helps developers and teams do their best work: turn prompts into executable specs, validate code correctness to find bugs unit tests miss, and build across large codebases with parallel agents that learn from every session.
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Official FAQ
- What is Kiro?
- Kiro is an agentic AI with an IDE , CLI , web interface , mobile app, and Kiro Crew that helps developers and teams do their best work. From quick fixes to complex tasks, Kiro works alongside you to turn prompts into executable specs, validate code correctness to find bugs unit tests miss, and build across large codebases with parallel agents that learn from every session—so what you build is exac
- What is spec-driven development? How is it different from vibe coding?
- Developing with specs keeps the fun of vibe coding, but fixes some of its limitations: vibe coding can require too much guidance on complex tasks or when building on top of large codebases, and it can misinterpret context. When implementing a task with vibe coding, it’s difficult to keep track of all the decisions that were made along the way, and document them for your team. By using specs, Kiro
- How can I get started with Kiro?
- Kiro works as an agent in the IDE , with a CLI , in a web browser , from mobile app, and in Kiro Crew. Download the installer for your operating system, or sign in to use it with a paid account on the web or mobile. Log in with GitHub, Google, AWS Builder ID, or AWS IAM Identity Center. You do not need an AWS account to use Kiro. Kiro Crew is an open-source development workspace that runs on your
- What programming languages does Kiro support?
- Kiro supports a variety of programming languages that developers use in their day to day work. This list includes, but is not limited to Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin, C, C++, shell scripting, SQL, Scala, JSON, YAML, and HCL.
- Can I import settings from my existing IDE?
- Kiro is based on Code OSS, so you can import your VS Code settings, themes, and Open VSX compatible plugins in the Kiro onboarding flow.
- How is Kiro Web different from Kiro IDE, CLI, and Kiro Crew?
- Kiro IDE is for active, local development with real-time agent collaboration. Kiro CLI is for terminal-based workflows, custom agents, and deployment pipelines. Kiro Crew is the persistent, open source development workspace that coordinates across your unique tools and workflows. Kiro Web is for delegating and steering from the browser, with sessions that run in isolated cloud sandboxes , keep goi
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