Kiro
Amazon Web Services ยท Code editor, Terminal, Web app
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
How to add a server to Kiro
- Find the server you want on plug.directory and open its page.
- In its install block, pick Kiro. The block shows the config and where it goes.
- 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"]
}
}
} 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