Voice Mode, Opt-In Cloud Sessions, and Spec Review

This release lets you talk to Kiro instead of typing: /voice dictates your prompts with on-device transcription. Spec runs gain a review screen for reading phase documents and staging line comments, and AGENTS.md files now load as steering context from anywhere in your workspace tree. Enterprise administrators should note that cloud sessions are now opt-in, so organizations that never set the toggle will find them disabled.

Speak your prompts instead of typing them. Start a recording with /voice, Ctrl+O, or by holding Space, and partial text streams into the prompt as you talk until you press Enter or it auto-stops on silence. By default your speech is transcribed on your own machine with Whisper, so no audio leaves your computer and no cloud API key is required. The model downloads once, behind an explicit confirmation, on first use. Add --continuous for a hands-free back-and-forth that starts a new recording each turn. Learn more ->

Cloud sessions are now disabled unless an administrator explicitly turns on Cloud Sessions in the Kiro console. Because an unset toggle now resolves to disabled, organizations that never configured it will find cloud sessions unavailable until an admin opts in. Learn more ->

Press Ctrl+X at a spec phase checkpoint to read the phase document in place and stage line comments on the parts you want changed. When you answer the checkpoint question, every staged comment goes to the agent as one revision request, so reading a document and asking for changes stays in a single screen. Learn more ->

AGENTS.md files now load as steering context from anywhere in your workspace tree, not just the workspace root and ~/.kiro/steering/. Put an AGENTS.md next to the code it describes, and the agent picks it up alongside your other steering files. Learn more ->