Kiro
Type: app · Vendor: Amazon Web Services · Language: based on Code OSS · License: proprietary · Status: active · Status in practice: emerging
Bring engineering rigor to agentic development through spec-driven workflows.
Description. AWS agentic IDE (with CLI and web interfaces) built on Code OSS, centered on spec-driven development: a natural-language prompt is first turned into requirements and acceptance criteria in EARS notation, then architecture and tasks, before any code is generated. Imports VS Code settings/themes and Open VSX plugins.
Agent loop shape. Spec-first loop: prompt → EARS requirements + acceptance criteria → architecture/design → task breakdown → implementation, with validation against the spec; runs as an IDE/CLI agent.
Primary use cases
- spec-driven feature development with explicit requirements before code
- long-running task completion with correctness validation
- VS Code-compatible agentic IDE workflows
Key concepts
- Spec-driven development → spec-driven-loop (docs) — Prompts become EARS requirements and acceptance criteria before code.
Patterns this app implements —
- ★Spec-Driven Loop
Specs or specifications are structured artifacts that formalize the development process for features and bug fixes in your application.
- ★Pre-Flight Spec Authoring
Feature Specs: User stories and acceptance criteria in requirements.md
- ★★Plan-and-Execute
Tasks — Generate discrete, executable implementation tasks in tasks.md
- ★Agent-Computer Interface
Kiro is based on Code OSS, so you can import your VS Code settings, themes, and Open VSX compatible plugins
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