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Around noon: I'm happily coding, Kiro-CLI helps me with AWS knowledge, the sun is shining, birds are chirping

Going home in the afternoon, laptop turned on, I'm logged out. Okay, let's log back in

I'm on FREE tier instead of Pro+

No living subscription on the console

I waited 'til this morning, and tried to log in (eu-central-1)

The same. The service I'm ***paying*** for no longer exists. For me.

It says: "This user has been unsubscribed and no longer has access." WHAT??????

Have you seen such a phenomenon like that before?

I am seeing what appears to be a timing issue today when working in Kiro IDE. I click on the "Start task" above a task. The UI immediately changes the task to [-] showing it is in process, but as the AI begins to work on it, it thinks it is already complete. I have seen this message a couple of times this morning.

>It looks like task 4.3 is already marked as completed (with the [-] marker in the tasks.md, which indicates it was skipped/partially done).

Has anyone else seen this behavior? It is not a blocker, of course... just an inconvenience.

Hey all, we just shipped Kiro Web and wanted to share it here. 50% off standard credit usage on Kiro Web through May 29 🔥 Available for Pro, Pro+, and Power subscribers. Currently GitHub-only. If your org uses AWS Identity Center, admin needs to enable Web access.

TL;DR: Go to app.kiro.dev, connect your GitHub repos, describe what you need built/fixed/migrated, and Kiro either collaborates with you on it or handles it end-to-end in autonomous mode, opening a PR when done. No IDE, no CLI, runs entirely in the browser. Kiro never merges without your approval.

Not every coding task starts with "let me open my editor." Sometimes you're reviewing a PR and spot something, or a teammate flags a bug while you're in meetings, or you want to kick off work before EOD. We wanted a zero-setup path from "this needs doing" to "here's a PR to review."

How it works:

• Explore and iterate: talk through your codebase, explore approaches, iterate on code together. You drive, Kiro assists. Open a PR when you're satisfied.
• Delegate end-to-end: describe the task. Kiro asks clarifying questions, builds a plan, codes, runs checks, and opens a PR. You review the output before anything merges.

Stuff that's actually useful:

• Multi-repo sessions: select multiple repos, describe one change, get coordinated PRs. Update a library and its consumers in one go.
• GitHub integration: add kiro label to an issue, Kiro picks it up. Leave PR review comments, Kiro addresses them. /kiro all to handle all feedback at once.
• Sandboxed execution: every session is isolated. Fresh environment, cloned repos, destroyed after. You control what it can access.
• Steering files: define your team's conventions once (coding standards, architecture patterns, tech preferences). Kiro follows them every session. Same files work in IDE, CLI, and Web.
• Learns from feedback: PR review comments shape how Kiro works on future tasks across repos.

👉 Try it now: app.kiro.dev
📖 Blog: kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro-web
📖 Docs: kiro.dev/docs/web
🌐 Learn more: kiro.dev/web

On the free tier? Upgrade to Pro to get access. Would love to hear what tasks people throw at it. The best results we've seen so far are the things you know need to happen but keep pushing to next sprint.

After working with Kiro IDE for about a month now on some fairly large projects, I have noticed that I am constantly running into the same issues over and over, whether its ignoring steering files or just flat out giving me output that I did not ask for. I believe a lot of these issues could be solved if I could just enable a thinking/reasoning block for the model I have selected (Opus 4.6, for example) so it could catch these issues before it touches any code, but there seems to be no way to do that, so I'm stuck with it constantly ignoring steering files, never answering questions and instead replying with "You're so right, let me throw away all the work we just did and do this another way", etc.

Is there really no way to enable thinking/reasoning in the IDE?

Anyone else getting “Too many requests, please wait before trying again” after the latest Kiro update?

Mine started right after updating. Even normal prompts trigger it after a few requests. I already tried restarting and reconnecting internet.

Is this a server issue, new rate limits, or a bug from the update?

API Error: 400 [kiro/claude-sonnet-4.5] [400]: Input is too long. (reset after 30s)

tried /compact /clear , nothing works ,even a new session and nothing...

Anthropic recently published their harness design for long-running apps — a multi-agent architecture inspired by GANs where a Generator builds code and an Evaluator critiques it in a loop.
I built my own version using Kiro CLI and used it to generate a marketing website for my project Mnemo (persistent memory for AI coding agents).

The architecture:
Planner (runs once) → Generator ↔ Evaluator (12 iterations)

Each agent is a separate CLI process with zero shared context. They communicate only through files (spec.md, eval-report.md). The Evaluator uses Playwright to actually browse the live site — not just read code.

What made it work:
Clean slate per invocation — each agent starts fresh, reads only its input files. Prevents context anxiety.

Playwright MCP for testing — the evaluator navigates, clicks, resizes viewports. Catches visual bugs code review never would.

Anthropic's frontend design skill — explicitly penalizes generic AI patterns (Inter font, purple gradients, card layouts). Forces creative risk-taking.
Continuous iteration, not retry-on-failure— all 12 rounds run regardless. Each one improves.

The progression was wild:
Iteration 1: Exactly what you'd expect from AI — functional but forgettable
Iteration 4: Generator pivoted to "Terminal Noir" — IBM Plex Mono, amber on black, grain textures, scanlines. This is the kind of creative leap that doesn't happen in single-shot generation.
Iterations 5-12: Polish, accessibility, responsive fixes, reduced-motion support

Stats:
Total time: 3h 20min
Iterations: 12 (generator + evaluator each)
Manual code written: 0 lines (I fixed a few visual issues after)
Tech: Next.js, Tailwind, Framer Motion, TypeScript

Live result: https://mnemo-mcp.github.io/Mnemo/

Documentation : https://github.com/Mnemo-mcp/Harness

Key takeaway: The model is the engine. The harness — the constraints, feedback loops, and adversarial structure around it — is what determines whether you get AI slop or something genuinely distinctive.

Hey everyone,

I recently switched from the Free plan to Kiro Pro Plus on Kiro (Amazon's AI IDE) about 2–3 days ago, and ever since the upgrade, I've noticed something strange, the proper model list is broken.

What I expected to see: Claude (Sonnet, Haiku, etc.), and other premium models that should come with the Pro plan.

What I'm actually seeing: A list of third-party models like Deepseek v3.2, MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.1, GLM 5, Qwen3 Coder Next, none of the Claude models that are supposed to be available.

https://preview.redd.it/k78e2jqtgh1h1.png?width=452&format=png&auto=webp&s=779131516dfb818ffbf43527eb41555a2e5a2b6e

Has anyone else run into this after upgrading? Is this a known issue or something on my end? Would appreciate any help or workaround while this gets resolved.

I'm curious about how the $200 plan stacks up against other services. As a heavy user, I do a lot of coding with Codex (on the $100 plan) and Claude Max. Is Kiro Power's performance and capacity comparable to those? I'd love to get some insights from you guys.

I'm a Kiro CLI user for a month, on a pro plan, I prefer to use auto mode as kiro said it'll use the best model for the usecase, where I can get all benefits of Claude 4.x models, but, the tool calls were very expensive, a simple grep and sed commands take me 2-5 credits depending on my usage. even a simple Hi will take ~0.50 credits

But surprisingly, the costs were down today, literally halved, like I sent some messages and I'm seeing the costs like ~0.20, and tool calls and edits, read and mixed ops took me ~0.70 which seemed a good relief for me (confirmed that I'm in auto only), and it correlated with the Anthropic's post, where they said they are doubling the weekly usages too along with the daily usage getting doubled. Am I the only one feeling this or am I dreaming??😂

How can i get the 500 free credit, from kiro IDE.
Do I need to login with new email id or use the different laptop ?

Hey everyone! 👋

Just found a solid offer:

Kiro Pro + Claude 4.7 completely free for 1 month.

Here's the step-by-step (tested and working):

*Go to → https://app.kiro.dev/signin

Sign in with Google

*Choose KIRO PRO (it will show $20 at first but after selection you will see $0)

*Add your payment method and complete the process (total stays $0)

*Once activated, go immediately to Billing Settings → switch your subscription to Free

You keep all Pro features (including Claude 4.7) for the full month

No charge at the end of the month if you cancel.

Perfect way to try Claude 4.7 Pro for free.

Let me know in the comments if it worked for you too!

Hey, I'm fed up with accepting all the terminal commands.
In settings I have:
-global: auto approve (experimental) turned on
-agent autonomy - autopilot set

Still this has no effect on that. Am I missing something?

I'm really impressed with the ide.

It has solved so much with ease compared to Gemini and others using the auto feature. Kudos you've solved so many solutions which others could not. Thanks for the free ide. 👍

This should be an option, they are open weights with friendly licenses. Also, Deepseek v4, GLM-5.1, and one variant of Qwen3.6.

Why have I lost all my Claude models? Only the bad Chinese AI is left. I bought a Pro subscription!

No opus, sonet

Pro sub