- Models
- Kiro positions model choice around Anthropic Claude, open-weight models, and Auto model selection. The product page shows Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, Claude Haiku, DeepSeek, and MiniMax examples.
- Surfaces
- IDE, CLI, web, mobile, and enterprise workflows, with a headless CLI that can run in CI/CD.
- Common work
- Create requirements, architecture designs, sequenced tasks, property-based tests, local or cloud implementations, pull request review, and bug fixing.
- Control model
- Spec-driven development, parallel agents, AGENTS.md support, Skills.md support, MCP support, Agent Client Protocol compatibility, and enterprise governance controls.
- Watch for
- Credit usage, model availability, enterprise policy, cloud versus local execution, and whether the spec workflow fits the team’s development process.