Kiro · AWS (Amazon)
AWS's Claude-powered agentic IDE (VS Code fork; launched internationally May 7, 2026 as the successor to Amazon Q Developer) whose signature is spec-driven development — generating requirements.md/design.md/tasks.md with EARS acceptance criteria before coding — plus event-driven agent hooks, steering files, AGENTS.md/Skills.md/MCP support, and 'Kiro Powers' pre-packaged AWS MCP servers; the GitHub repo (3,980 stars) is a public issue tracker, not the source.
Identity
| Homepage | https://kiro.dev/ |
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| Repository | https://github.com/kirodotdev/Kiro |
| License | proprietary |
| Domain | coding |
| Form factor | ide |
Model support
| Model-agnostic | partial |
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| Native models | Claude Sonnet (via Amazon Bedrock) |
| Local models | ○ no |
| Pricing | freemium |
Extensibility
| MCP client | ✓ yes |
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| Agent Skills support | ✓ yes |
| Plugins / hooks | ✓ yes |
Execution & safety
| Sandboxing | unknown |
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| Autonomy spectrum | supervised → semi-autonomous → autonomous-local |
| Subagents | ? unknown |
| Parallel sessions | ✓ yes |
| Context management | codebase-indexing · persistent-memory |
Integration & evidence
| Headless / API | ? unknown |
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| GitHub integration | ? unknown |
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✓ profile last verified 2026-07-08 · benchmark figures are vendor-reported unless a source states otherwise