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Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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1016 points QuinnyPig | 3 comments | 14 Jul 25 14:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.694s | source
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NathanKP ◴[14 Jul 25 15:03 UTC] No.44561071[source]▶
Hello folks! I've been working on Kiro for nearly a year now. Happy to chat about some of the things that make it unique in the IDE space. We've added a few powerful things that I think make it a bit different from other similar AI editors.

In specific, I'm really proud of "spec driven development", which is based on the internal processes that software development teams at Amazon use to build very large technical projects. Kiro can take your basic "vibe coding" prompt, and expand it into deep technical requirements, a design document (with diagrams), and a task list to break down large projects into smaller, more realistic chunks of work.

I've had a ton of fun not just working on Kiro, but also coding with Kiro. I've also published a sample project I built while working on Kiro. It's a fairly extensive codebase for an infinite crafting game, almost 95% AI coded, thanks to the power of Kiro: https://github.com/kirodotdev/spirit-of-kiro

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1. htrp ◴[14 Jul 25 15:42 UTC] No.44561480[source]▶
Is this being powered by any specific model?

>overage charges for agentic interactions will be $0.04 per interaction, and if enabled, will begin consuming overages once your included amounts are used (1,000 interactions for Pro tier, 3,000 for Pro+ tier). Limits are applied at the user level. For example, if you are a Pro tier customer who uses 1,200 requests, your bill would show an overage charge of $8 (200 × $0.04). Overages for agentic interactions must be enabled prior to use.

What is defined as an interaction?

EDIT: RTFM

>Whenever you ask Kiro something, it consumes an agentic interaction. This includes chat, a single spec execution, and/or every time an agent hook executes. However, the work Kiro does to complete your request—such as calling other tools, or taking multiple attempts—does not count towards your interactions.

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2. NathanKP ◴[14 Jul 25 15:54 UTC] No.44561639[source]▶
There is a model picker that currently allows you to switch between Claude Sonnet 4.0 and Claude Sonnet 3.7

And yes, Kiro is agentic, so it can (and often does) execute a long running multi-turn workflow in response to your interactions, however, the billing model is based on your manual interaction that kicks off the workflow (via chat, spec, or hook), even if that agent workflow takes many turns for Kiro to complete

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3. moffkalast ◴[14 Jul 25 21:15 UTC] No.44565407[source]▶
Ah yes the classic Cline setup, you can choose any model as long as it's Claude. Anthropic has to be really making API bank these days.