Amazon has released Kiro Crew as an open-source workspace for coding agents that can continue assigned work after a developer steps away. The system is designed for jobs such as investigating incidents, triaging tickets, handling migrations and monitoring pull requests, rather than a single chat session.
Kiro Crew gives agents shared memory, reusable skills and scheduled jobs. Multiple agents can work concurrently or delegate to subagents, while integrations connect through the Model Context Protocol and webhooks. An Activity view exposes each agent’s plan, tool calls, approval gates and results as the work unfolds.
The project began inside Amazon under the name MeshClaw. Its creators say more than 39,000 Amazon developers adopted it internally before the public release. Kiro Crew can now run on a developer’s computer or infrastructure they control, which may suit teams that do not want agent workloads hosted by a third party.
The system also includes an operating-system sandbox, commands denied by default, sensitive-path blocking and credential redaction. Those safeguards do not remove the need for review: asynchronous agents can make broader changes over longer periods, so the visible approval gates remain an important part of the workflow.