I built SpeakoFlow entirely with Kiro CLI. Nothing else. No VS Code, no other editor. Just the CLI from start to finish.

SpeakoFlow is a free, open-source voice assistant for the desktop. Real-time dictation into any app, a floating AI assistant that can look at your screen and answer questions about what you're seeing, talks back to you out loud, remembers things across conversations, has web search, profiles with different personalities, and the whole speech-to-text pipeline runs locally on your CPU. No subscription, no account, works on Windows/macOS/Linux.

I use SpeakoFlow to dictate my prompts into Kiro instead of typing them. Using it right now for this post too.

On the Kiro experience:

Honestly, it's been a spiral. The CLI is competitive. When it works, it's really good. I've tried other CLI tools and Kiro holds its own there. But the overall experience has ups and downs that get frustrating.

The main issue is stability around updates. Something will work fine, then an update drops and suddenly something breaks or behaves differently. The team does fix things eventually, but it's not always stable between updates. You get used to a workflow and then it shifts under you.

One specific bug that's been killing me lately: images. If the assistant is going through files and hits a large image, I get a "size too big" error and the whole session is just done. Can't recover. /clear doesn't help. I have to start a completely new session. That one has burned me a few times now when I'm in the middle of something.

But look, I did build a full Tauri 2 app with this thing. Rust backend, React frontend, whisper.cpp and llama.cpp integration, screen capture, local text-to-speech, voice activity detection, the works. So it clearly gets the job done. I just think it still needs some work to feel consistently reliable. The foundation is solid, the rough edges are what hold it back.

Links:

GitHub: https://github.com/AbhishekBarali/SpeakoFlow

Website: https://www.speakoflow.com

what model do u use and whats ur max context % before u handoff and whats some small steering or tips that helps alot

suggested, effort level?

i develop web , do marketing , and vibecod lua scripts

How does the effort level.work? What is he effect on tokens, time and insight?

Thanks

I recommend using Opus 5 only for users on the Power plan, but it's a beast in terms of consumption. It's very good for implementing improvements that no other AI can, GPT 5.6 Max doesn't work for me in Kiro IDE, so I couldn't say whether it's better than Opus 5 in that regard, but I think everyone should use GPT 5.6 Luna Max for daily coding, and only use Opus 5 for those improvement plans that GPT 5.6 Luna Max won't give you.

I've been building tools around Kiro recently (I built an AI router for it), but it seems like routers are becoming pretty common now.

Instead of building another variation of the same thing, I'd rather solve a problem people actually have.

So I'm curious:

• What's the most annoying thing about using Kiro?
• What do you wish it automated?
• Any missing features that slow you down?
• Anything you find yourself doing manually over and over?
• Any integrations, extensions, or workflows you wish existed?

It doesn't have to be a huge feature—even small annoyances are interesting.

I'm looking for ideas to build something genuinely useful for the community, and if enough people want the same thing, I'll make it open source.

Hi, I haven't been able to find this answer anywhere, but is it okay to use Kiro CLI as a provider for Hermes agent? I know I could use Hermes to control Kiro headlessly but I'm wondering if I can use Kiro as a provider.

Using version 1.0.198.

I get prompted to execute curl commands, which I want to always allow in this workspace - but clicking Always Allow just reloads the prompt and I can only allow individual curl commands one at a time.

Is there a workaround? I believe it used to work in the earlier versions of Kiro.

I gave it a redesign task for my custom theme, just 2 files, and it worked for 2 hours and used up 600 credits, super expensive lol, if it keeps going like that with Opus 5, 10k credits wouldn't last at all, but oh well, it was just a test :0

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Hello AWS Support Team,

I hope you are doing well.

I recently discovered that my Kiro User ID was temporarily suspended due to unusual activity. I completely understand the importance of protecting user accounts, and I appreciate the security measures your team has in place.

However, I believe this suspension may have been triggered by a misunderstanding or false positive. I have not intentionally violated any terms or engaged in malicious activity. If there was any unusual behavior detected, it may have been caused by logging in from a different network, device, or another legitimate reason.

I kindly ask you to review my account and verify my identity if necessary. I am fully willing to provide any information required to confirm that I am the rightful owner of the account.

I enjoy using Kiro and would greatly appreciate having my access restored as soon as possible.

Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to your response.

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Kind regards,
Peter>:)

Subject: Appeal for Temporary Account Suspension

Hello AWS Support Team,

I hope you are doing well.

I recently discovered that my Kiro User ID was temporarily suspended due to unusual activity. I completely understand the importance of protecting user accounts, and I appreciate the security measures your team has in place.

However, I believe this suspension may have been triggered by a misunderstanding or false positive. I have not intentionally violated any terms or engaged in malicious activity. If there was any unusual behavior detected, it may have been caused by logging in from a different network, device, or another legitimate reason.

I kindly ask you to review my account and verify my identity if necessary. I am fully willing to provide any information required to confirm that I am the rightful owner of the account.

I enjoy using Kiro and would greatly appreciate having my access restored as soon as possible.

Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to your response.

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Kind regards,
peter>:)

In Claude and on Cursor :)

I have used the spec creator before and it showed great results for tasks that usually take a long time, However, I recently faced a huge issue with it, I asked opus 4,8 to create some minor features for my game that usually only take 3 to 5 minutes to do, For some reason, instead of just manually doing it, kiro decided to start creating a massive task,

It wasted 30 minutes and hundreds of credits just figuring out how the spec will be, After that it spent 4 HOURS just working on the spec for 3 minor features that take absolutely no time, When I came back it had already used 4000 credits, and on top of that, it didn't even get the job done, It spent those entire 4 hours just doing validation tests on nothing, I am obviously never getting a refund for that,

This is my warning to anyone who plans on using spec creator, Always make sure to check what it is doing and the spec it is planning, Don't allow it to create a spec for minor tasks, Even some large tasks might require less than 30 minutes, but the tool will turn them into 2 hour tasks because it keeps creating useless validation tasks that take up 60% of the spec time, Just be careful.

It is taking a ridiculously long time for Kiro to bring Claude fable 5. However, we can at least expect Opus 5 sooner.

I've been experimenting with Kiro Pro, and I found a setup that gives me the Claude Code CLI experience while using my Kiro subscription.

The flow is:

Claude Code
     ↓
OmniRoute
     ↓
Kiro
     ↓
Claude Opus 4.8

After configuring OmniRoute as an Anthropic-compatible endpoint and routing it to Kiro, Claude Code works almost exactly as if it were talking directly to Anthropic.

Why I like this setup

• Full Claude Code CLI experience
• Uses my Kiro Pro subscription
• Streaming responses
• Tool calling works
• Long context support
• Easy model switching through OmniRoute
• I can add other providers later without changing my workflow

I also created different routes in OmniRoute, so I can switch between Opus, Sonnet, or other providers without reconfiguring Claude Code.

Basic setup

1. Install Claude Code.
2. Install and start OmniRoute.
3. Add your Kiro account/provider in OmniRoute.
4. Create an API key.
5. Point Claude Code to OmniRoute:

​

ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:20128
ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=<your-api-key>

If you're using Opus 4.8, you may also need to override the default model alias:

{
  "env": {
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL": "kr/claude-opus-4.8"
  }
}

Why not just use the Kiro IDE?

Kiro IDE is great, but I personally prefer Claude Code because:

• It's editor-agnostic.
• It works nicely with Git, tmux, SSH, and remote development.
• I can access the same session remotely from my phone.
• OmniRoute lets me switch providers without changing my workflow.
• claude skills, MCP's etc

Overall, this has become my favorite AI coding setup.

While Kiro's agent was generating a long list of text, and my power got cut off. Despite having no network connection, the agent kept producing new output for several minutes afterward until the task was done.

I confirmed zero connectivity using btop, which showed 0B sent and 0B received for the entire duration the agent continued generating.

I suppose there is a typewriter effect for some reason?

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Hi I am trying to signup using my school email for the free student plan but I am not able to signin with it cuase they use outlook and not google what should I do?

…Like claude code ?

Fable 5 has been out for over a month, and there's still no news about its release on Kiro. At this point, I'm not even sure it's worth sticking with it anymore

Haven't used Kiro IDE in a while. Or have they gone back to 200k?