Kiro

Amazon Web Services ยท Code editor, Terminal, Web app

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Kiro is a coding agent from AWS offered as an editor based on Code OSS, a command-line tool and browser sessions, built around spec-driven development. MCP servers are set under mcpServers in .kiro/settings/mcp.json for a workspace or ~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json for all workspaces: local servers by command, args and env, remote servers by url with optional headers.

Facts

Runs on
macOS, Windows, Linux source
Kind
Code editor, Terminal, Web app source
Price
Free plan source
Source code
Not published
Connects to
Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP) source
Publisher
Amazon Web Services source

How to add a server to Kiro

  1. Find the server you want on plug.directory and open its page.
  2. In its install block, pick Kiro. The block shows the config and where it goes.
  3. Put the config in ~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json (user) or .kiro/settings/mcp.json (workspace). Then check the server's tools in Kiro, as its docs describe.

For example, Azure MCP Server, one of the top ranked servers that work in Kiro, goes in ~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json (user) or .kiro/settings/mcp.json (workspace):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "azure": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@azure/[email protected]", "server", "start"]
    }
  }
}

Step by step for this server

How to add an MCP server to Kiro: local and remote

Matches the official docs The config follows Kiro's MCP docs, read on 2026-11-01.

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Facts read from Amazon Web Services's own pages on 2026-11-01; the description is ours, from its site. Every client