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Kiro CLI

AWS's terminal coding agent (formerly Amazon Q Developer CLI).

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About

Kiro CLI (kiro.dev/docs/cli) is AWS's terminal coding agent — the current name of the Amazon Q Developer CLI: agent resources, MCP support, and deep AWS integration.

The pick for AWS-native teams — it knows your infrastructure. Commercial, tied to AWS.

What it can do

  • Terminal coding agent
  • Agent resources
  • MCP support
  • AWS-native
  • Commercial

Setup

  1. Install per kiro.dev docs.
  2. Authenticate with AWS.
  3. Configure agent resources and MCP servers.

Prerequisites

AWS account.

Use cases

codeautomation

Works with

Generic APIAny agent (.md)

Trust score — 7/10

/10 trustMetrics-checked

Scored 7/10 (metrics tier). AWS's official terminal agent with MCP support, but AWS-centric and proprietary with provider-estimated adoption. Metrics tier.

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
7.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
7.0/10
Openness · license + docs
4.5/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
7.0/10
  • · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
  • · AWS Kiro CLI (ex-Amazon Q Developer CLI); no public repo — adoption estimated
  • · released 285 days ago
  • · manual review: Kiro CLI — AWS's terminal agent; agent resources + MCP; AWS-native; license: proprietary

Sources

Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.