Changelog

The Users and Subscriptions tabs in the Kiro console now display an Email column for teams using IAM Identity Center, making it easier to identify and manage team members. Admins can see each user's email address alongside their username and plan details. The email field is also included when downloading the subscriptions CSV file. Learn more ->

Kiro CLI 2.0 expands platform support to Windows, introduces headless mode for CI/CD automation, graduates the terminal UI from experimental to the default experience, and adds new capabilities across subagents, hooks, and MCP configuration.

Kiro CLI now runs natively on Windows 11. Windows users can now build using the same agentic coding experience available on macOS and Linux — terminal UI, headless mode, custom agents, and MCP servers all included. Install from PowerShell and background auto-updates keep you current. Learn more ->

Run Kiro CLI non-interactively in CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts, and environments without a browser. Authenticate with an API key via the KIRO_API_KEY environment variable, pass a prompt with --no-interactive, and Kiro executes it end-to-end. Use --trust-all-tools or --trust-tools to grant tool permissions upfront. API key authentication is available for Pro, Pro+, and Power subscribers, and enterprise admins can control API key generation through governance settings. Learn more ->

The terminal UI is now the default chat interface. It gives you syntax-highlighted markdown, interactive overlay panels, visual tool progress, and a full set of keyboard shortcuts. Use the crew monitor (Ctrl+G) to track subagent activity in real time, /theme to customize colors, /copy for clipboard access over SSH, /transcript to review conversation history in your pager, /guide to switch to the onboarding agent, and /spawn to run parallel agent sessions. Subagents now support task dependencies — for example, analyze a codebase first, then refactor modules, then run tests, with each step waiting for the previous one to finish while independent steps run in parallel. Switch back to the classic interface anytime with --classic or kiro-cli settings chat.ui "classic". Learn more ->

Added support for GLM-5, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with a 200K context window designed for complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks. GLM-5 excels at processing repository-scale context and maintaining coherence during multi-step tool use across large codebases, making it a strong choice for cross-file migrations, full-stack feature development, and legacy refactoring where the model needs to hold the full picture. Available with experimental support in both the Kiro IDE and Kiro CLI. Inference runs in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) with a 0.5x credit multiplier. Restart your IDE or CLI to access it from the model selector. Learn more ->

Administrators can now export Kiro subscription data as a CSV file directly from the Kiro Console. The new "Download CSV" button on the Users & Groups page's Subscriptions table exports user name, subscription plan, status, type, and activation date.

Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 now support a 1M context window, up from 200K, and are no longer marked as experimental. Both models are now generally available in the Kiro IDE and Kiro CLI for Pro, Pro+, and Power tier subscribers.

Restart your IDE or CLI to see the updated models. Learn more ->

MiniMax M2.5 is now available in eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) for users authenticating with AWS IAM Identity Center, extending support beyond us-east-1 (N. Virginia).

Available on all subscription tiers with a 0.25x credit multiplier and 200K context window. Restart your IDE or CLI to access it from the model selector. Learn more ->

This release brings an experimental refreshed terminal UI behind the --tui flag. The new experience features a live status bar, rich markdown rendering with syntax-highlighted code blocks, interactive panels for managing context and sessions, and contextual overlays for tools and help. You also get /chat new for starting fresh conversations without restarting the CLI, and --list-models for quickly checking which models are available.

Get a richer chat experience with the new TUI. Agent responses render with full markdown, syntax-highlighted code blocks, tables, and nested formatting. Tool calls show descriptive titles and progress indicators as they run. Interactive panels let you browse context, switch sessions, and manage tools without leaving the terminal. The classic interface remains the default, so you can switch back at any time. Try it with kiro-cli --tui or set it permanently with kiro-cli settings chat.ui "tui". Learn more ->

A new open weight model is now available with experimental support in the Kiro IDE and CLI. Available on Free, Pro, Pro+, and Power tiers with all authentication methods. Supported in us-east-1 (N. Virginia). Restart your IDE or CLI to access it from the model selector.

MiniMax M2.5 matches frontier-class coding performance at a fraction of the cost. Trained with reinforcement learning across hundreds of thousands of real-world environments, it delivers strong results across the full development lifecycle from system design to code review and completes complex agentic tasks significantly faster than its predecessor. 200K context window with a 0.25x credit multiplier.

Eligible university students now get one full year of free access to Kiro with 1,000 credits per month. No credit card required, no trial timer. Kiro's spec-driven development teaches structured problem decomposition — useful whether you're building class projects, hackathon prototypes, or startup MVPs. Every job now expects AI fluency; Kiro helps students build with AI from day one.

Students receive 1,000 credits per month for 12 months, with full access to Kiro IDE and CLI agentic capabilities including spec-driven development. Verification is handled through SheerID using a university-affiliated email.

1. Sign up or log in at kiro.dev/students using your university email
2. Verify student status through SheerID (takes about a minute)
3. Start building — credits are available immediately after verification

Available with 11 eligible universities, with more coming soon. For the full list and details, visit kiro.dev/students.

MiniMax 2.1, DeepSeek 3.2, and Qwen3 Coder Next are now available for AWS IAM Identity Center users. All three open weight models are available on all plans in both the Kiro IDE and CLI. MiniMax 2.1 and Qwen3 Coder Next are available in both us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and eu-central-1 (Frankfurt). DeepSeek 3.2 is available in us-east-1 only. Credit multipliers are unchanged: DeepSeek 3.2 at 0.25x, MiniMax 2.1 at 0.15x, and Qwen3 Coder Next at 0.05x. Learn more ->