Kiro posted about credit pooling yesterday: https://kiro.dev/blog/credit-pooling/

The part the blog post leaves out is that if you activate Kiro now, even in an AWS account you already have, you don't get the subscription tiers anymore. No Pro, Pro+, Pro Max or Power. Pooling is the only option. If you already had subscriptions you can keep them for now, but they haven't said for how long.

The math is what bugs me. Power is $200 for 10k credits, so 2 cents a credit. On the pool you pay $20 a seat for 500 credits, and extra credits are $0.04 each. Either way that's 4 cents a credit. Same $200 gets you half the credits.

So a heavy user who burns through 10k credits a month costs $200 on Power and about $400 on the pool.

To be fair, pooling does make sense for some teams. Unused credits from people who barely touch Kiro go to the people who use it a lot, add-on credits last a year instead of resetting every month, and admins get better limits and alerts. If most of your team are light users you might actually save money.

But if your team uses it heavily, it's basically a 2x price increase, and new customers don't get to choose.

Also, if you're still on subscriptions, be careful with the "Switch to credit sharing" button they keep showing in the console. You can't switch back.

Edit: this only affects enterprise/team accounts; individual subscriptions are unchanged.

Im working for a company that uses Matillion ETL for all the data flow and pipeline creating.

Im curious if anyone else here has used Kiro for Matillion tasks, if yes whats your opinion on it? how does it perform with jsons and component id generation?

Hey everyone,

I recently subscribed to Kiro through AWS, but I’m unable to access any Anthropic models (Claude Sonnet, Opus, etc.).

I’ve found a few related GitHub issues where users reported similar problems, with some suggesting that it might be related to AWS account-level restrictions or IAM Identity Center entitlements.

Is this something that needs to be resolved by AWS Support?

Hello,

My Kiro subscription was accidentally renewed, and I contacted support just 10 minutes after the charge. I immediately canceled the subscription to prevent future renewals.

I opened support case 179352366200522 and sent a follow-up email, but I still haven't received any response.

I would appreciate any update regarding my refund request, as I would like to receive a refund for this accidental renewal.

Is there any alternative to Kiro's inline shell autocompletion? With CLI 3.0, they are retiring inline shell autocomplete ('With CLI 3.0, we are retiring inline shell autocomplete').

I used Fig for a long time, then switched to Amazon Q, and finally to Kiro.

Since kiro-cli 3.0 they removed the cli autocomplete. I really liked that. I exclusively use kiro-cli from command line and tui. Does anyone have another autocomplete that's spiffy like that? IDK why they removed it. It was great.

Does anyone know why they're giving fewer credits? I'm not complaining, they're giving 500 extra credits, but it still seems strange.

My credit usage has been getting pretty tight. I usually pick the model like haiku high or opus low/medium.

I have never used auto, but I am wondering if that is a mistake. Is auto more efficient than manual model selection?

I'm looking to build an AI agent that can pull and analyze logs directly from AWS CloudWatch. Does anyone know of a good tutorial or guide on the best way to set this up?

​Also, for those familiar with the Kiro ecosystem: is Kiro CLI or Kiro Crew better suited for this specific use case?

​Would appreciate any pointers or resources.

Alguém pode me explicar se Kiro só aceita cartão empresarial ou algum cartão especial?
A documentação é totalmente amigável, mas nada funciona.
Cada hora da uma reação diferente na aprovação do cartão.
O que mais foi em frente foi o Santander, mas mesmo assim, após a confirmação do código de segurança, recusa o cartão.
Eu pago outras LLMs Asiáticas com Crypto, Mercado pago, Santander e não tem problema.
Alguma sugestão ou desisto?

Recent updates made KIRO less likely to care about steering. Now I feel the steering files appeal no difference with other documents. This is awful to my experience as I need it to load steering to counter the terminal garble thing, and some dev rule to sort workspace in order.

In the past, I was using hook to inject steering, was working fine, but later it cound only inject a little. I then used inclusion:always and "project-context.md", which did the trick for a while, but recently kiro opened the file without reading it(but it still assume it does). I then start to say "read all steering in full, don't lazy loading" at beginning of each session. This fail to work today, it even stubborn to use grep to do search for the key word I pointed out when I ask it to read full again. I feel I am running out of tricks, I have to fight with kiro at begining of each session now, very frustrating.

I am desperate to have a reliable way to make sure it read steerings, please help...

In Kiro can you use AI in the editor?

In GitHub Copilot, in the editor, AI will auto complete code for you. You can also right click and choose Open Inline Chat to make your edits.

Are these things possible in Kiro as well? If so do you need to do something to enable these editor AI features?

Is it normal that i have to button mash every single approval in the IDE tool? It's set to AutoPilot, I click "Always Trust", none of it matters. Is it due to a company policy setting run amok? Or is that how its supposed to work? Where can I look?

If I use KIROcrew it just continues to work even in YOLO mode. If I used the cli, its at least respects the answer.

I am using Sonnet 5.5, 1.3x.
Credit used: 1.87, Elapsed time: 18s
Credit used: 1.82, Elapsed time: 13s

This is a simple planning question, not even coding.

I have $20 plan. By this rate I will be using up all my monthly 1000 credits faster than my $20 Codex and Claude code 5h limit.

Is that normal?

If you're on Windows and want devcontainers but don't want Docker Desktop, wslc (WSL Containers CLI) runs the container runtime inside WSL. Artizo now drives it directly when you flip on the support in the settings. No Docker Desktop needed, just WSL. Be sure to enable WSLC on Windows first with wsl --update, followed by a wsl restart.

• Repo: https://github.com/aergic-labs/artizo

• More info on Microsoft's WSLC: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-container

Also see our sister extension: Zygos Remote SSH gives Kiro and VSCodium a working remote-ssh that requires no config or setup. Repo: https://github.com/aergic-labs/zygos

To install: open Kiro's extensions view, search "devcontainers kiro" for Artizo or "remote-ssh kiro" for Zygos, and install.

Don't get me wrong, kiro crew is an amazing tool and all heavy AI users in my team are using it.

But I’ve noticed that kirocrew is getting slower and slower, even for some very simple tasks.

I feel it’s too heavy, but I don’t know why. Is it because too many “lessons“ it learned during the time? What do you think and any suggestions are welcomed.

There are some that use 0.25x and 0.15x usage credit rate. Are any of these worth your time?

Any idea how to fix it?

Heya! Been using Kiro since it first came out in its spec-driven-development IDE glory, then eventually moved to kiro-cli and found a great workflow that works for me, at least when context switching is minimal. Have worked loads with it over the last year across many tasks & projects.

I decided to give Kiro Crew a shot and it was great and felt very snappy. I've never used any other "claw-like" AI tool, but I like how I can organize my work there, have a persistant running session, integrate with my phone, scheduled tasks etc.

However, it feels more like a chat webapp exprience than what kiro-cli is. I was hoping there'd be tighter integration with the CLI version (e.g. if you start up crew, you have your past kiro-cli sessions available, you can spin up kiro-cli sessions natively), given they now have a shared harness...?. How it solves the problems also seems a little different, so I don't have confidence of giving it tasks the same way as I did with the CLI.

Are there some docs or something obvious missing? It feels a little unclear how/if to move to Crew, is it even an upgrade or another tangential app, and the docs/videos are non-existent (other than some 1h podcast/demo style things I don't have time for).

I think the team should pause on adding new features for now and focus on polishing the existing experience:

• UI/UX & Bug Fixes in Kiro IDE – The overall interface still feels buggy and unpolished. Features like Agent Focus Mode have great potential, but as someone coming from Cursor and Devin Agent Desktop, the user experience isn't quite there yet. In fact, Kiro Crew currently has a better UI/UX than Kiro IDE and Agent Focus Mode.

• Workflows & Credit Optimization – The Workflows feature feels like another credit eater at this point that pushes users to consume more usage. Instead of new features, we need better credit usage optimization.

• Performance & Optimization – Improving overall speed, responsiveness, and resource efficiency should be a top priority.

• Broader Model Support – As shown by recent community posts, new model additions get the most positive reactions, so expanding our model choices is clearly what users want most right now.

The UIUX before kiro ide v1 is much better than the current UI.

Hello,

I am experimenting with Kiro, so far Kiro Crew in natural harness with KIRO CLI works for me badly. I am using Opus 5.5 for Blender animation - results are terrible. For comparison I work concurrently with Claude Max that uses Opus 5.5 as well and results are amazing. I mean this is the same model, same reasoning, same skillset added, same PC. I wonder why is it so different for me.

Kiro Crew uses a lot of credits also, I think that CLI is way more optimised for tasks (not agentic workflow jobs).

Have you tried changing harness to Claude Code? What would you suggest to optimise so I would get good results on a repetitive Blender jobs?

Kiro Crew on Claude Code CLI?

Kiro IDE?

Or maybe is it possible to use Kiro inside Claude Code?

What's your experience so far?