The Kiro Crew application is open source under the Apache License 2.0, but it needs a Kiro plan to run, and the work its agents do consumes Kiro credits.

A named, long-running agent in Kiro Crew that owns one area of work, keeps its own memory and work log, runs its own sessions and can work on a schedule.

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Abstract illustration of an agent hub linked to surrounding tasks — AWS makes Kiro bots generally available, giving coding agents memory and standing jobs

AI Agents9 Nov 2026, 16:22 UTC

AWS made bots generally available in Kiro Crew on 5 November 2026: named coding agents with their own memory, schedules and permissions.

Summary

AWS made bots generally available in Kiro Crew, its open-source workspace for AI coding agents, on 5 November 2026. A bot is a named, long-running agent that owns one area of work, such as issue triage or build monitoring, keeps its own notes and work log, runs its own sessions and can work on a schedule. Bots bill through existing Kiro plans and run on a laptop, a desktop or Amazon EC2.

About Kiro

Kiro is the AI software development product line from Amazon Web Services. It includes an agentic IDE, a command-line interface, a web product and Kiro Crew, an open-source workspace for long-running coding agents. On 5 November 2026 AWS made bots, named agents with their own memory and schedules, generally available in Kiro Crew.

Reviewed 9 Nov 2026 · by Amazon Web Services

Facts at a glance

Developer: Amazon Web Services
Products: IDE, CLI, web product and Kiro Crew, all covered by Kiro subscriptions source
Kiro Crew licence: Apache License 2.0; the application is free but runs on a Kiro plan source
Kiro Crew open-sourced: August 2026 source
Bots: Generally available in Kiro Crew from 5 November 2026 source
Where bots run: Wherever Kiro Crew runs: a laptop, an always-on desktop machine or an Amazon EC2 instance source

Questions people ask

Is Kiro Crew free?: The Kiro Crew application is open source under the Apache License 2.0, but it needs a Kiro plan to run, and the work its agents do consumes Kiro credits.
What is a Kiro bot?: A named, long-running agent in Kiro Crew that owns one area of work, keeps its own memory and work log, runs its own sessions and can work on a schedule.

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