---
type: entity
subtype: tool
title: "Kiro"
description: "Amazon's AI coding assistant, drawing growing enterprise interest after re:Invent."
resource: "https://kiro.dev"
tags: [coding-agent, amazon, ai-ide]
videos: [the-kiro-ai-coding-hackathon-has-officially-started-build-anything-win-big-prizes, ai-exploded-in-2025-heres-everything-that-happened, build-any-ai-agent-with-this-context-engineering-blueprint]
created: 2026-07-21
updated: 2026-07-21
---

# Kiro

[Kiro](./kiro.md) is Amazon's entry into agentic coding, and one Cole has warmed to. "Amazon has released their own coding agent, Kiro, which is an AI coding assistant that I'm starting to respect more and more." Interest climbed further after re:Invent, and a sponsored hackathon put it front and center: "literally the only requirement is that you use Kiro." He calls it "a very featurerich AI coding assistant."

In a real build he found it fully capable of end-to-end [agentic coding](../../concepts/agentic-coding.md): "Kiro goes ahead and does all the implementation just like we would see in Claude Code. And it did a phenomenal job by the way." That puts it in the same functional bracket as [Claude Code](./claude-code.md) for autonomous implementation. It carries the now-standard feature set Cole cares about, [context engineering](../../concepts/context-engineering.md) support, [slash commands](../../concepts/slash-commands.md), [global rules](../../concepts/global-rules.md), and spec-driven work, so his general lessons about [vibe-coding](../../concepts/vibe-coding.md), [skills](../../concepts/skills.md), and structured prompting transfer directly.

For Cole, Kiro matters mostly as evidence that the frontier agent capabilities are no longer unique to one vendor: a hyperscaler shipping a genuinely good, feature-rich coding assistant is part of the broader commoditization story he tracks across [Cursor](./cursor.md), [Windsurf](./windsurf.md), and the rest.

## Realizes

- [Agentic Coding](../../concepts/agentic-coding.md) - Letting an AI agent drive software development end-to-end, from planning through implementation and validation, with human steering.

## Contrasts with

- [Claude Code](./claude-code.md) - Anthropic's terminal-based agentic coding assistant that is the subject of this complete-guide walkthrough.
- [Cursor](./cursor.md) - AI coding assistant that can consume AG-UI's llms.txt docs to help build with the protocol.
- [Windsurf](./windsurf.md) - AI coding IDE Cole used to build the Python AG-UI backend and consume the protocol docs.
- [Codex](./codex.md) - OpenAI's cloud-based software-engineering agent integrated with GitHub, plus a Codex CLI.

## Related

- [Context Engineering](../../concepts/context-engineering.md) - The deliberate practice of curating exactly what goes into an LLM's limited context window - system messages, schemas, chat history, and dynamic variables - to avoid overload and keep outputs sharp.
- [Slash Commands](../../concepts/slash-commands.md) - User-defined command files that package a prompt and arguments into a callable shortcut inside the coding agent.
- [Global Rules](../../concepts/global-rules.md) - Persistent project- or user-level rule files that inject standing context and conventions into every agent run.
- [Vibe Coding](../../concepts/vibe-coding.md) - Building software by conversationally prompting an AI without closely reading the code, useful for prototypes but risky for production.
- [Skills](../../concepts/skills.md) - Reusable, model-invoked capability packages that load specialized instructions and tools on demand to extend an agent.

## Sources

- [The Kiro AI Coding Hackathon has Officially Started! Build ANYTHING, Win Big Prizes.](../../sources/the-kiro-ai-coding-hackathon-has-officially-started-build-anything-win-big-prizes.md) - "[0:02:51] It's actually pretty easy to talk about this because literally the only requirement is that you use Kiro."
- [AI Exploded in 2025 - Here's Everything That Happened](../../sources/ai-exploded-in-2025-heres-everything-that-happened.md) - "[0:06:46] Amazon has released their own coding agent, Kiro, which is an AI coding assistant that I'm starting to respect more and more"
- [Build ANY AI Agent with this Context Engineering Blueprint](../../sources/build-any-ai-agent-with-this-context-engineering-blueprint.md) - "[0:07:32] Kiro goes ahead and does all the implementation just like we would see in Claude Code. And it did a phenomenal job by the way."
