Kiro
Kiro is an AI coding app for macOS that helps developers plan, write, explain, and test software from natural-language prompts.
What is Kiro?
Kiro is a desktop developer tool for macOS focused on AI-assisted software development. It helps programmers turn prompts into code, specifications, documentation, and tests inside an IDE-style workflow. Kiro supports natural-language conversations about a codebase, making it useful for understanding existing projects, debugging issues, and drafting new features. It also supports opening local folders and importing settings and extensions from Visual Studio Code, which can make setup easier for developers moving from other editors. Kiro is aimed at software engineers, technical teams, and builders who want an integrated coding workspace with AI help for everyday development tasks. It is published by AMZN Mobile LLC as part of the Kiro product from AWS.
Key features
- Chat about your codebase in natural language
- Generate code, tests, and documentation from prompts
- Turn feature ideas into structured specifications and implementation steps
- Open local projects and work inside a desktop IDE workflow
- Import Visual Studio Code settings and extensions
- Help debug problems and explain existing code
- Assist with repetitive development tasks across a project
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Kiro is legitimate development software. Like other AI coding tools, it may access source files you open in the app and send relevant content to cloud services to provide code assistance, so avoid opening sensitive projects unless that matches your organization's policies. Network access, sign-in, and background update behavior are normal for this type of developer tool.
Recommendation: Keep Kiro if you use it for software development or AI-assisted coding. If you no longer use it, you can remove it like other desktop apps; doing so may also remove access to its local settings, cached data, and saved sign-in state.
Common paths
/Applications/Kiro.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/dev.kiro.desktop
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Kiro
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/dev.kiro.desktop.plist
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