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# Kiro

by AWS · [Engineering factories](/software-factories/category/engineering-factories.md)

[Visit website](https://kiro.dev/)

Agentic development environment that turns a prompt into requirements, a design and tasks for parallel agents.

## Overview

Kiro is an agentic development environment from AWS, available as a desktop editor, a terminal tool, a web agent and a phone app. It is built around spec-driven development: a prompt becomes requirements, a design and tasks, which are then handed to parallel agents that write the code.

Its autonomous agent can clone repositories into cloud sandboxes, coordinate sub-agents and open pull requests. Agents run on the user’s machine or in the cloud. Kiro also writes property-based tests, which check a rule across many inputs rather than a few examples.

Pricing is based on monthly credits, from a free tier up to $200 a month. Users can extend Kiro with MCP servers, skills and tool packs.

## Features

* Turns a prompt into requirements, a design and a task list before code is written.
* Hands tasks to parallel agents that write the code.
* Writes property-based tests that check a rule across many inputs.
* Available as a desktop editor, a terminal tool, a web agent and a phone app.
* Supports Claude, GPT and open models.
* Lets users add MCP servers, skills and tool packs.

## Details

* Website

  [kiro.dev](https://kiro.dev/)

* Company

  AWS

* Headquarters

  Seattle, WA, United States

* Category

  [Engineering factories](/software-factories/category/engineering-factories.md)

* Source

  Proprietary

* Deployment

  Local, Cloud

* Topics

  * [Spec-driven development](/software-factories/?tag=spec-driven)
  * [Parallel agents](/software-factories/?tag=parallel-agents)
  * [IDE](/software-factories/?tag=ide)
  * [CLI](/software-factories/?tag=cli)
  * [Testing & QA](/software-factories/?tag=testing)
  * [MCP](/software-factories/?tag=mcp)

* Listed

  September 2026

* Last verified

  October 2026

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