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Kiro CLI

Coding agent from Amazon

Amazon's terminal coding agent with planning, permissions, custom agents, and repository tools.

Decision lanes

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Verified observations

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  1. Official fact

    Local repository access is supported.

    Kiro CLI is an AI coding agent that lives in your terminal — it reads your codebase, writes code, runs commands, and asks before doing anything destructive.
    Source: kiro.dev