Kiro CLI
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Kiro CLI is the terminal coding agent from AWS that took over from the Amazon Q Developer CLI. It runs on macOS, Linux and Windows, works on the project in the current folder and can also run headless in scripts and CI. MCP servers sit under mcpServers in .kiro/settings/mcp.json for one workspace or ~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json for every workspace: a local server by command, args and env, a remote server by url with optional headers. The kiro-cli mcp add command writes a local entry from the terminal.
Facts
How to add a server to Kiro CLI
- Find the server you want on plug.directory and open its page.
- In its install block, pick Kiro CLI. 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 CLI, as its docs describe.
For example, Azure MCP Server, one of the top ranked servers that work in Kiro CLI, 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 CLI: local and remote
Matches the official docs The config follows Kiro CLI'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