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KiroCrew

Active·★ 4.5k·Apache-2.0·Updated 2026-10-22
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Kiro Crew is an open-source development workspace from the team behind the Kiro IDE. It runs on your Mac, in a container or on a remote host, and a Gateway process keeps sessions, memory, schedules and task checkpoints alive across restarts, so work continues when the chat window closes. The same session can be picked up from the desktop app, a web dashboard, the CLI, or Slack and Discord.

Its distinguishing ideas are self-learning and self-evolving: corrections and task failures become durable lessons (global or limited to one repository with repo_scope), and repeated patterns are synthesised into skills you can inspect and edit. Long-running tasks are planned, validated, retried and resumed from checkpoints, and scheduled jobs, heartbeats and authenticated webhooks cover unattended work. MCP servers, markdown skills and hooks extend it without touching the core.

The default agent runs on kiro-cli, which you install and sign in to separately, so in practice it builds on a Kiro account. Security controls include tool approvals, OS sandboxing, sensitive-path checks, credential redaction and audit events. It ships as desktop builds on stable, insider and nightly channels, a one-line CLI installer and a Docker image. License is Apache-2.0.

This write-up is based on the project's README and public repository data. We have not hand-tested the tool.

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$ Install
$ curl -fsSL https://download.crew.kiro.dev/cli.sh | sh
↗ Visit site★ GitHub
01

Features

01Persistent, concurrent sessions that resume after Gateway restarts
02Self-learning lessons, optionally scoped to one repository with repo_scope
03Checkpointed long-running tasks that plan, validate, retry and resume
04Scheduled jobs, heartbeats and authenticated webhooks for unattended work
05Tool approvals, OS sandboxing, credential redaction and audit events
02

Why choose it

+Checkpointed long tasks resume after restarts and stop on failed validation, so you can hand off multi-step work and walk away.
+Lessons and skills are visible and editable, and can be scoped per repository, so learned behaviour stays inspectable.
+Same session across desktop, web, CLI, Slack and Discord without moving the runtime.
03

Trade-offs

!The default agent depends on kiro-cli and a Kiro sign-in, so it is not model-agnostic out of the box.
!An always-on agent with shell access and webhooks needs careful approval and sandbox settings.
!Many moving parts (Gateway, apps, schedules, channels) make it heavier than a terminal coding agent for one-off tasks.
04

Maintenance check

ActiveChecked: 2026-10-22
Last commit
2026-10-22
Commits, last 90 days
100+
Releases, last 90 days
30
Latest release
v0.10.0-insider.4 (2026-10-17)
Open issues
2815
Recent issues with at least one comment
3/20
Commits per week, last 12 weeks
Commits per week, last 12 weeks: 563, 761, 619, 827, 906, 708, 680, 824, 878, 1030, 1207, 530

Oldest week on the left; the latest four weeks are orange. Source: GitHub commit activity.

Status rule: archived on GitHub = Archived; last commit within 90 days = Active; 91 to 365 days = Slowing; older = Stale. All figures come from the GitHub API on the date shown.

05

Compatibility

kiro-cli
Default agent
Verified via docs
macOS / Windows / Linux
Desktop app
Verified via docs
Docker
Server image
Verified via docs
Slack / Discord
Messaging
Verified via docs
06

Quick start

1
$ curl -fsSL https://download.crew.kiro.dev/cli.sh | sh
07

Use cases

↳Handing off a multi-step migration that should stop if tests fail
↳Recurring summaries of open work delivered to Slack every weekday
↳Running an always-on coding agent on a home server or remote host
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