Kiro
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Using aws-vault to manage access to your AWS resources from Kiro CLI
Feb 19, 2026 | 8 minute read
As we say at AWS, security is our top priority. This is why I have been spending time thinking about how to manage what our agentic AI tools can do. After publishing a previous post on this topic (Getting Kiro CLI to use short lived AWS credentials), this post takes a look at another approach you can take. Vincent reminded me about an awesome open source tool called aws-vault that helps developers move to using short lived, temporary credentials.
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Getting Kiro CLI to use short lived AWS credentials
Feb 19, 2026 | 10 minute read
Agentic AI tools like Kiro IDE and Kiro CLI are pretty awesome. You provide the right context, the right prompt, and away they will go. After a period of time, you can now review the output. Early on developers understood the power, but also the potential harm that could be cause (and we began to read stories like this one. Most developer tools now provide capabilities that allow you as a developer to have fine grain control of what they can and more importantly, should never do.
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Building a digital badge system with the help of Kiro (and Amazon ECS Express Mode)
Jan 15, 2026 | 7 minute read
I have been working on a new digital badge demo application that you can use to generate and then issue digital certificates. You have probably seen these in your LinkedIn newsfeed - those digital badges saying that you have completed this or that activity or training course. I have been using Kiro to create this demo application, leveraging the Strands Agent framework to make adding generative AI a trivial exercise (seriously, if you have not tried it yet do yourself a favour and check it out).
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Implementing an agentic player coach workflow with Kiro CLI subagents
Jan 9, 2026 | 8 minute read
Edition #216 - November 2025 Over the Christmas period I spent some of my down time catching up on blog posts and open source projects that I had bookmarked to “read later”. I have been interested in learning about opinionated workflows that use agentic tools like Kiro CLI to generate better output. One of those projects looked at how you can improve the output from agentic tools through something called player/coach (I think it might be similar to the actor/critic method that I used back in the reinforcement learning days of Deep Racer).
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Automating made easy with Kiro CLI
Dec 10, 2025 | 16 minute read
What are you automating with generative AI ? I have spoken at many events this year sharing how I see developers using AI coding assistants like Kiro and Kiro CLI. The top use case was debugging code, and I wrote about that in Debugging and troubleshooting issues with AI coding assistants. In this post I am going to talk about another very common use case, automation. I will share a couple of things that I found trivial to automate with the help of Kiro, but also some unexpected things I learned along the way.
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Zero to shipped - a year in review
Dec 4, 2025 | 24 minute read
A year of Zero to Shipped I am at Build Stuff doing my live coding talk, Zero to Shipped in 30 minutes. I have done this “talk” many times this year, and as I look back to January when I did the same session at PyCon+Web in Berlin, what amazes me is how far AI Coding Assistants have come in such a short period of time. Back then I used Amazon Q Developer (pre agentic mode), and a lot has changed.