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Kiro's diagnostics tool helps the agent understand and work with your code by integrating with your installed IDE extensions. This integration provides real-time error detection, syntax validation, and code analysis that improves AI assistance quality.
The diagnostics tool integrates with your installed IDE extensions to provide code analysis. When you have language extensions installed, Kiro can access:
Install Language Extensions for your programming languages. See our language-specific guides for recommended extensions:
Open a file in your target language to activate the language server
The tool works automatically during agent execution - no additional configuration needed.
If the agent isn't detecting code issues:
Diagnostics Tool