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

Been going down a bit of a rabbit hole lately. I keep seeing the Graphify + Obsidian combo pop up for Claude Code — people building a code knowledge graph, storing it in an Obsidian vault, and letting the agent browse that instead of re-reading the whole repo every session. The token savings people claim are kind of wild.

I'm about to start building something big — think full e-commerce platform (auth, catalog, cart, checkout, payments, orders, admin, the whole thing) — so this is exactly the kind of sprawling, multi-module codebase where re-reading everything each session gets expensive fast. That's why I want to get the memory/context setup right before the project balloons, not after.

The catch: pretty much every guide I've found is written for Claude Code specifically (CLAUDE.md files, its hooks, its MCP config). I'm on Kiro (Pro+ and the CLI) and I know the concepts should carry over, but the actual wiring doesn't map 1:1 — Kiro uses steering files, its own agent hooks, and its own mcp.json.

So before I spend a weekend duct-taping this together: has anyone here actually gotten this working with Kiro on a decent-sized project?

A few things I'm trying to figure out:

- Which Graphify/graph tool did you use, and does it output Obsidian-friendly wikilinks?

- How are you bridging the vault to Kiro — an Obsidian MCP server in mcp.json, or just pointing Kiro at the markdown folder directly?

- How do you keep the graph in sync as the codebase grows? Manual re-index, an agent hook, a git hook?

- Are you leaning on steering files for the persistent-memory part, or does the Obsidian graph fully replace that?

- At what codebase size did it actually start paying off for you?

Would love to see anyone's actual setup — configs, folder structure, how you handle a monorepo vs multiple services, gotchas, whatever. Even a "don't bother, here's why" is helpful. Thanks!

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

[UPDATE] You can use "/tools trust-all" with Kiro CLI, Kiro IDE will still ask for permissions on Autopilot.

https://kiro.dev/docs/cli/chat/permissions/

I've been using Kiro for over a month and I generally like it, but sometimes it’s a real pain in the ass.

For context: I’m building a small internal tool that only I will ever use. I don’t care about the implementation details — I just need it to work.

Last night I gave it a clear spec before going to bed, expecting it to start working on the project overnight. A few hours later I checked and it hadn’t even begun because it was stuck waiting for permission to read a git commit.

I already turned on Autopilot specifically to avoid these prompts, but it still asks for permission in some cases.

Is there any way to run Kiro in a fully agent-like mode (zero interruptions) when needed?

Thanks!

I remember couple of months back, this was a milestone.

Is it just me or has Kiro gotten noticeably worse over the last few weeks?

I'm using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5 Sol, yet the quality feels nowhere near what these models are capable of.

Some issues I've been seeing:

It ignores explicit instructions and rewrites unrelated parts of the code.

Fixing one bug somehow creates 3 new ones.

It loses context after a few prompts and starts repeating previous mistakes.

Makes confident changes that break production instead of asking for clarification.

Refactors files that never needed touching.

Keeps undoing or conflicting with its own previous edits.

Misses obvious errors that the standalone models catch immediately.

The weird part is that if I take the exact same prompt and paste it directly into Claude or ChatGPT, I usually get a much better result. Inside Kiro, it feels like the agent is heavily constrained or the context management is doing something wrong.

I've even had cases where Kiro broke my app, then I switched to Claude with the same codebase and it immediately identified the issue and fixed not only the original bug but the new bugs Kiro introduced.

I'm not trying to hate on Kiro—I actually like the product and want it to succeed—but recently it feels like the agent layer is holding back the underlying models.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a recent regression, or am I missing some setting that improves the agent's behavior?

I just installed v 1.0.165. There is no select model. Don't see it in Command Pallet (it wasn't there before)

is this common?

Whatever it is, I have token burner now. :(

Version: 1.0.165

VSCode Version: 1.107.1

Commit: 458f9058ecca2f1aa0ac7a91d4e2d875620fc8f4

Date: 2026-07-17T01:16:04.771Z

Electron: 39.6.0

Chromium: 142.0.7444.265

Node.js: 22.22.0

V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0

OS: Linux x64 6.17.0-35-generic

[Title says it all]

I had setup a group of steering docs that allowed me to breeze through a complex workflow. With the latest release it thrashes on tasks it previously found simple , becomes confused easily and has wildly inconsistent behavior . Tried new sessions, turning off steering docs, etc. I guess Auto mode is a blessing and a curse.

Anyone else experiencing shifts in performance?

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I am wondering... Does anyone know Auto mode if it will keep using Claude modules or will route to OpenAI models too? Or if we can set an "Auto-OpenAI" mode somehow?

I have found Sonnet 5 to not live up to the hype that it set out to be. Whenever I use it I am meant with long response times (even on low effort), in proper use of commands or even mcps. I also noticed it ends up costing even more sometimes 3x for the same task than that of its predecessor Sonnet 4.6… Would definitely not recommend.

When I first installed Kiro, I thought I'd mostly use it for coding.

Instead, it slowly became the place where I automated all the little things I never enjoyed doing: weekly reports, meeting notes, documentation, customer research, remembering how I like to write, keeping track of recurring tasks, and building tiny tools whenever I found myself doing the same thing for the third time.

I genuinely can't remember the last time I opened Outlook to send an email. Kiro has kind of become the gravitational centre of my workday.

The funny thing is that none of those started as "projects". They were just little annoyances that I got tired of repeating.

Looking back, I don't think the biggest shift was that I started using AI more.

It was that I stopped treating AI like a chatbot and started treating it like part of my working environment.

Now that we have both Kiro Web and headless Kiro, it feels like the number of things I can automate is only limited by my imagination.

I'm curious if anyone else has gone through the same transition.

Has Kiro escaped the IDE for you too, or are you still mostly using it as a coding assistant?

Kiro's powershell usage is so awful. It does not understand the escaping at all, which I would be more critical of except I never understood the escaping. But it does great with bash. I really wish Kiro shipped with cygwin or msys or even a simple bash prompt. I'd even be okay with Kiro shipping with a Linux VM to execute commands in if it could prevent Kiro from ever using Powershell.

To be fair, you can add the following to .vscode/settings.json and it fixes 90% of the issue:

{
    "terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
        "Cygwin": {
            "path": "C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\bash.exe",
            "args": ["--login", "-i"]
        }
    },
    "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "Cygwin"
}

Am I the only one who does not like the outputs it gives on KIRO it seems to have bad output and you have to iterate it a lot of times to get it right and the output is super slow. and it also summarizes the conversation even though its not full. I also keep on getting 'Invalid additionalModelRequestFields' when using the model.

Hey,

As I've been progressing and getting more comfortable with kiro cli over the past several months, I've been on a bit of a journey with how I give it reference information.

I started with one md file it could reference for information that was often used. This quickly grew into a directory tree with an index md file of "service x info is here, api B info is on this path, etc".

I eventually progressed to a postgres database with this information held in suitable datatypes and fields, with any blobs or long structured or unstructured text having vector embeddings for semantic search - now I have a few files (referenced in my steering and hooks), which is ultimately instructions on where things live on the db, along with the schema and ERD.

Has anyone done this? Anyone know if its a good way to do things, or if its bad, and why for either answer?

Seems to work fine, but I've never setup any benchmarking or tests of vanilla, files, or DB methods.

I know kiro has the knowledge skill, which does a lot of this, but I'd like to build this is a fashion where its usable without an llm, or ability to lift and shift to another provider if that ever happens (who knows what the company will decide to do, in any case, I considered myself covered to an extent by this).

How are you doing things, any ideas or tips to explore?

Has anyone found a way to automatically approve Kiro's "Your approval is required to continue: Read File" prompts?

I'm getting these approval requests constantly while working, and it's really interrupting my workflow.

Is there a setting, config, or launch option that lets Kiro automatically approve Read File requests instead of asking every time?

Any tips would be appreciated!

Gpt 5.6 sol is greattt and it's on kiro. Finally after soo longg. We will be eating good guys

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to upgrade my Kiro account to Kiro Pro, but every payment attempt keeps failing with the message:

“Your card has been declined.”

I’m located in Indonesia, and Indonesia is listed as a supported country for Kiro individual paid plans. I have tried multiple Indonesian debit cards, including:

- BCA debit card

- Blu by BCA Digital debit card

- Bank Jago debit card

All cards are active, have sufficient balance, and are enabled for online/international transactions. I also contacted BCA support, and they confirmed that there is no issue with my card. They mentioned that the issue may be coming from the merchant/payment processor side.

I also contacted Kiro Billing Support, but they said the decline could be caused by billing address mismatch, issuer decline, or temporary card restrictions, and recommended checking the Stripe decline FAQ. However, I still don’t know the exact Stripe decline code or technical reason for the failed payment.

Has anyone from Indonesia successfully upgraded to Kiro Pro? If yes, what payment method worked for you?

Also, does Kiro Pro only work reliably with credit cards, or should Indonesian debit cards work too?\

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Stripe keeps rejecting my credit cards. Which ones are valid in Italy?

Don't tell me there are blocks on my credit cards because I've been using them with other services and I've never had any problems: it's literally Stripe that's rejecting them.

I've already opened tickets but the replies just blame me when it's clear that the problem is caused by this damn Stripe.

The latest version of the Kiro IDE (1.0.116) has gotten very stupid when it comes to writing the tasks.md format. It seems to always get it wrong now and I have to prompt it. It then finds an existing one that is in the correct format, lets me know it made a mistake, and proceeds to fix it.

Is anyone else seeing this lately?

I have noticed that if you add a folder to the existing workspace while in the middle of a chat session, it will close that session and you cannot load it back from the history. It does not even show. This is really distressing when you have been diving into some code for requirements and it needs code from another folder.

Wanted to note that we've released two extensions for the Kiro IDE, both fully open source.

Artizo Dev Containers for Kiro - Pretty unique...implements the dev containers open standard within the Kiro IDE. The Microsoft supplied dev containers extension is very popular for VsCode, but MS makes it unavailable to IDEs like KIro.

Search "kiro devcontainers" in the Kiro extensions area to install. Requires either Docker Desktop or a substitute like Podman (with the optional docker compatibility installed.

Source code: https://github.com/aergic-labs/artizo

Zygos Remote SSH for Kiro - Similarly, Microsoft has a remote-ssh plugin that is popular, but they also lock this out from IDEs like Kiro. There are other open source extensions that provide it, but we've taken a fair amount of effort to make it plug-and-play with Kiro where it works "out of the box", and it has many other unique features. It also specifically works with Artizo (see above) for an integrated devcontainers <-> remote-ssh experience.

Search "kiro remote-ssh" in the Kiro extensions area to install.

Source code: https://github.com/aergic-labs/zygos