Build with Kiro: Introducing the community hub and Kiro Labs
Helen Hasbun
Product Marketing
Massimo Re Ferre
Product
The Kiro community has been building. From hackathon projects that push boundaries to custom hooks, creative agent workflows, and MCP integrations shared across social and Discord, you’ve been taking Kiro places we hadn’t imagined. Internally at Amazon, we’ve seen the same thing. Builders of diverse backgrounds are customizing workflows, interfaces, and tools that get the most out of Kiro in ways we hadn’t anticipated. Now, we’re giving all of these things a proper home.
Today we’re launching the Kiro community hub, a new destination on Kiro.dev to discover what the community is building, find resources to build better and faster, how to connect with other developers using Kiro, and get hands-on at events featuring Kiro. Alongside community-built projects and Kiro powers, you’ll find Kiro Labs, a new GitHub organization we’re launching that’s dedicated to open-source projects built by Amazon employees with Kiro, for Kiro, to extend and enhance your development experience with Kiro. You can explore the projects at kirodotdev-labs on GitHub - they’re ready for you to fork, extend, and make your own.
We believe the fastest innovation happens in the open. Over the past year, we’ve watched internal Amazon builders define best practices at both the personal and team level through a remarkable amount of experimentation and personalization. Kiro Labs is how we’re sharing this work, so you can get inspired, learn from, and build upon it.
Projects in Kiro Labs are experimental and community-driven, separate from the official kirodotdev GitHub organization and not officially supported Kiro features. They are shared as-is, with no warranty, to inspire and accelerate what you can build with Kiro. You’ll find projects spanning custom workflows that include agents, hooks, and more, personalized user interfaces on top of Kiro CLI, productivity tools that optimize Kiro usage. While the projects are published under as-is open-source licenses, they have undergone code and security reviews following Amazon’s open-source standards before being made available, and each has a clear status: Active (actively maintained, accepting contributions), Maintenance (bug fixes only), or Archived (read-only, no longer maintained).
Kiro Labs is a place for the community to participate. We welcome you to try these projects, file issues, submit pull requests, and share feedback. If a project sparks an idea or doesn’t quite work for your use case, let us know. Your input is important to help shape how these tools evolve. Explore the projects at kirodotdev-labs on GitHub and tell us what you think, or share your adaptations on social with us (@kirodotdev) and #KiroLabs.
Kiro Labs shows you how Amazonians are experimenting - the community showcase is where you’ll discover what the Kiro community is building. We want building with Kiro to be a visible, shared experience. When you can see what others are creating, you build faster, iterate on proven patterns, and inspire and push each other further. The community showcase makes it easy to explore and discover across project types. And, if you’ve built something with Kiro that you want to share with the community, you can submit it directly from the community showcase. The best ideas won’t come from us, they’ll come from you.
We’ll also surface community-authored guides, tutorials, and other resources here to help you build with Kiro. The features and capabilities of Kiro will continue to grow, and we want to surface community contributions throughout that growth. These resources represent real-world use cases and projects intended to support developers where other resources might fall short.
Great tools get built faster when builders are connected and talking. The community hub highlights ongoing conversations in our Kiro Discord community, where you can get support from other developers as well as Kiro team members, tune in to Kiro’s official biweekly office hours, share ideas, and find collaborators.
With the launch of the community hub we are also excited to share our first consolidated resource to find upcoming events with Kiro, both from the Kiro team as well as community-organized. Find hackathons, workshops, meetups, livestreams, and conferences all in one place. Building together in real time — whether virtual or in person — gives you hands-on and direct access to learn and connect with others. And to best support our community, we’ve also included a form to submit your own Kiro events for review to be added to the calendar, as well as an option to request support from the Kiro team across a variety of options like credits, staffing, marketing, and more. We’re excited to see what you organize and how we can help.
The community hub and Kiro Labs are launching as part of the same story: Kiro is built to be shaped by the people who use it. We’re just getting started, and we look forward to seeing what you’re building. Try forking a Labs project, file an issue, submit a pull request, share feedback. Submit your own project to the community showcase. Join a Discord channel. Participate in an event. Your input helps us shape how Kiro and this community evolves, and we want to put more control and more tools in your hands to drive that evolution.