{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "kiro-cli", "name": "Kiro CLI", "vendor": "Amazon Web Services", "vendorUrl": "https://kiro.dev/cli/", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "AWS's coding agent for the terminal and the successor to the Amazon Q Developer CLI. It runs interactive chat, non-interactive runs for pipelines with an API key, MCP servers and an Agent Client Protocol server for editors.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kiro-cli.json", "repo": "https://github.com/kirodotdev/Kiro", "license": "Proprietary. Licensed as AWS Content under the AWS Customer Agreement and the AWS Intellectual Property Licence (https://kiro.dev/license/). The GitHub repository is the public issue tracker and doesn't hold the source", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "`kiro-cli login` with GitHub, Google, AWS Builder ID, AWS IAM Identity Centre or an external identity provider, in a browser or by device flow on a remote machine. Pipelines use an API key in `KIRO_API_KEY`, created at app.kiro.dev by Pro, Pro+, Pro Max and Power subscribers. Keys are long-lived, named and revocable, with no scopes, and API key generation is off by default for subscriptions an administrator manages. An active browser session takes precedence over the key.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Kiro Free is $0 with 50 credits a month and a reduced model list. Pro is $20 a user a month with 1,000 credits, Pro+ $40 with 2,000, Pro Max $100 with 5,000 and Power $200 with 10,000, and extra credits cost $0.04 each. Models use credits at different rates (Auto is the 1.0x baseline). API keys for headless runs need a paid plan, and a paid plan needs a card. GovCloud prices are about 20 per cent higher with no free tier (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the pricing page or the CLI changelog (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 4356, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://kiro.dev/docs/cli/", "llmsTxt": "https://kiro.dev/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "official", "harness", "coding-agent", "cli", "closed-source", "mcp", "acp", "llms-txt", "free-tier", "no-card", "telemetry-default-on" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 578, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1239, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 40, "reliability": 57, "schema": 79, "security": 69, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-08-04. CVE-2026-18656 and CVE-2026-18657 (bulletin 2026-074-AWS), an uncontrolled search path on Windows let a planted executable in a crafted project directory run when a user opened it. Kiro CLI for Windows before 2.10.0 and Kiro IDE 1.0.0 to 1.0.212. Fixed and published with credit to the reporters, inside six months (https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-074-aws/). -2", "2026-05-22. CVE-2026-9255 (bulletin 2026-035-AWS), content piped to kiro-cli on stdin could answer the tool approval prompt, so a local actor could run tools and shell commands without the user's approval. kiro-cli before 1.28.0. Fixed and published, inside six months (https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-035-aws/). -2" ], "verdict": "Permission rules follow deny over ask over allow, cloned repositories can't add rules, and a headless session treats every ask as a deny. Content from Free and individual paid accounts is used for service improvement, including model training, unless the user opts out, and API keys for pipelines need a paid plan.", "bestFor": "Teams on AWS that want one agent configuration across terminal, IDE and web, with central permission policy, prompt logging to their own S3 bucket and IAM Identity Centre sign-in.", "strengths": [ "Capability permissions with deny over ask over allow, stored outside the repository so a clone can't add rules", "An untrusted workspace doesn't load its own agents, steering files, MCP configuration or skills, and asks before every shell command", "Headless runs with `--no-interactive`, JSON Lines output, and exit codes 3 and 4 for MCP startup and missing-agent failures", "Twelve minor releases between 26 August and 13 October 2026 in a dated changelog", "Plan prices, the $0.04 credit price and per-model credit multipliers are public, with a free tier of 50 credits a month" ], "weaknesses": [ "Free and individual paid accounts have content used for service improvement, including model training, unless they opt out", "Closed source since it replaced the Apache 2.0 Amazon Q Developer CLI, with no public CI or test suite", "API keys for headless runs need a paid plan, are long-lived and carry no scopes", "The local command sandbox exists only in the V3 engine and is off unless chosen, and AWS says managed permission policies are client-enforced", "Two CVEs in 2026 (CVE-2026-9255 in May, CVE-2026-18656 and CVE-2026-18657 in August), both fixed" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `KIRO_API_KEY` and pass `--no-interactive` with `--trust-tools=\u003clist\u003e` in pipelines. Keep `--trust-all-tools` for disposable environments", "Pass `--require-mcp-startup` when a run depends on MCP tools. Without it a failed server is logged and the run continues", "Pass `--no-interactive` whenever input is piped from a source you don't control, and run 2.10.0 or later on Windows", "Run `kiro-cli settings telemetry.enabled false` and turn off content collection on Free and individual plans. Both are on by default", "Pick another model if a session names Claude Sonnet 4, which reached end of life in Kiro on 14 October 2026. Kiro doesn't switch it for you" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 40, "reliability": 57, "schema": 79, "security": 69, "transparency": 66 }, "provenanceScore": 76, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-17", "maintenance": "2026-10-17", "payments": "2026-10-17", "reliability": "2026-10-17", "schema": "2026-10-17", "security": "2026-10-17", "transparency": "2026-10-17" }, "last": "2026-10-17", "lastMoved": "2026-10-28", "oldest": "2026-10-17", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://cli.kiro.dev/install | bash", "headless": { "run": "KIRO_API_KEY=ksk_... kiro-cli chat --no-interactive --trust-tools=read,grep \"Find all TODO comments in src/\"" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/kiro-cli" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Kiro Pro", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "per user, with 1,000 credits" }, { "item": "Add-on credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.04, "note": "paid plans, beyond the plan's credits" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc.", "domain": "kiro.dev", "domainRegistered": "2019-03-01", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/", "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://kiro.dev/changelog/cli/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "Kiro's licence page says the Kiro IDE and CLI are licensed as AWS Content under the AWS Customer Agreement and the AWS Intellectual Property Licence. Section 50.14 of the AWS Service Terms names Amazon Web Services, Inc. as the contracting party for subscriptions bought through the Stripe portal.", "The AWS Customer Agreement (last updated 14 August 2026) governs use, with the AWS Service Terms sections 50.3 and 50.14 for Kiro. The AWS Privacy Notice (last updated 18 May 2026) is the privacy link in Kiro's footer.", "kiro.dev/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 17 October. aws.amazon.com publishes a security.txt that is valid again, with Expires 2027-10-16 and a Policy of https://vdp.aws.security/.", "No status page for Kiro was found on kiro.dev or in its docs.", "RDAP (Google Registry) gives kiro.dev a registration date of 1 March 2019, before the product." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.json", "live": { "slug": "kiro-cli", "githubStars": 4417, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://kiro.dev/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T15:37:52.197880119Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://kiro.dev/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T15:07:46.428566275Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "kiro.dev", "registered": "2019-03-01", "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/kiro.dev", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T13:53:30.938182416Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://kiro.dev/changelog/cli/", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T05:42:02.772143611Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-29T05:09:15.732014356Z", "fingerprint": "9508ad64b037" }, { "url": "https://kiro.dev/changelog/models/", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T05:42:05.127242407Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-25T02:49:11.683249089Z", "fingerprint": "85245c5e8b4b" } ], "github": { "repo": "kirodotdev/kiro", "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T07:37:58.454527374Z", "stars": 4398, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-18T11:35:32Z", "openIssues": 1595, "openPRs": 7, "issuesOpened90d": 1610, "issuesClosed90d": 2659, "prsMerged90d": 2, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 1, "success": 0, "failure": 1, "other": 0, "latest": "failure", "latestAt": "2026-03-23T17:52:28Z" } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-30T15:37:52.197880119Z" } }, "answer": "OpenMausBot scores 65.4 (B) on agent readiness against Kiro CLI's 60.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Kiro CLI leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "openmausbot", "name": "OpenMausBot", "vendor": "Supamaus Software Private Limited", "vendorUrl": "https://mausbot.com", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "OpenMausBot, now branded MausBot, is an open-source desktop app that runs Claude Code, Codex and other agent CLIs as a team of chat bots with their own computers. Other agents drive it through a stdio MCP server and CLI.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmausbot", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmausbot.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmausbot.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openmausbot.json", "repo": "https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "openmausbot" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No account for the free app. The harness binds to 127.0.0.1. In packaged builds, read-only MCP tools work on loopback without a token, while tools that create, send, switch, interrupt or run need a paired session token (`omb_sess_...`) from a single-use pairing code in Settings \u003e Phone, passed as `OPENMAUSBOT_TOKEN` and revocable there. Agent CLIs use the owner's own logins or API keys. Cloud plans need a MausBot account.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The app is free under Apache 2.0, with model usage billed by the owner's own provider. MausBot Cloud, an always-on hosted workspace, is $15, $49 or $99 a month (Starter, Pro, Max) with 100, 300 or 800 cloud computer-hours. Team is $169 a month; Business plans start with a call. Extra computer-hours are $0.05 each. Prices from https://mausbot.com/pricing, read on 30 October 2026.", "priceSummary": "$15 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the MCP and CLI docs, the pricing page or the file tree of the repository (checked 2026-10-30). Cloud plans are paid by monthly subscription.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 20, "popularity": { "githubStars": 8181, "npmWeekly": 3518, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot/blob/main/docs/mcp-server.md", "capabilities": [ "agent.multi-agent", "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "desktop.control" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "apache-2.0", "self-hosted", "local", "freemium", "no-card", "mcp", "stdio", "cli", "typescript", "desktop-app", "macos", "windows", "linux", "docker" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 65.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 368, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1239, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 50, "reliability": 60, "schema": 90, "security": 59, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-30" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-18. The privacy policy (last updated 18 October 2026) says the desktop and companion apps contain no third-party analytics SDKs, while the app's source loads posthog-js and sends events to us.i.posthog.com unless the owner switches analytics off, as docs/analytics.md describes. Disclosed in the README and docs, so a misleading claim rather than undisclosed telemetry, -2. https://mausbot.com/privacy, https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot/blob/main/src/lib/analytics.ts" ], "verdict": "A bounded 20-tool MCP server with typed schemas, annotations and idempotent sends, and a headless CLI with JSON output and exit codes, let another agent hand work to a bot team and wait on it. New bots start at Full access, so provider permission requests pass without a card, and usage analytics stay on until switched off.", "bestFor": "A person or an outside agent who wants several CLI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, ACP CLIs) organised as named bots with their own computers, routines and approvals, driven by MCP or a CLI.", "strengths": [ "20 MCP tools with typed inputs, `additionalProperties: false`, limits and readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and idempotentHint on every tool", "`wait_for_conversation` holds until the job changes and returns settled, needs-user, failed, stalled or timed-out with the job tree", "`send_id` makes a repeated send return the first receipt instead of posting twice", "The `openmausbot` CLI prints one JSON document with `--json` and uses documented exit codes, 3 for a pending approval and 4 for a timeout", "128 desktop releases between 11 August and 30 October 2026, published to npm by GitHub Actions trusted publishing with provenance" ], "weaknesses": [ "New bots start at Full access, which approves provider permission requests without a card", "Usage analytics to PostHog are on by default, while the privacy policy says the apps carry no third-party analytics SDKs", "Pre-1.0 (0.1.134), with new capabilities shipped in patch versions and no breaking-change section in release notes", "The MCP server answers only while the desktop app or `openmausbot serve` is running, and mutating tools need a paired token", "Not in the official MCP registry. The Windows installer is not code-signed" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the owner for a pairing code from Settings \u003e Phone, exchange it at `POST /api/auth/pair`, and set `OPENMAUSBOT_TOKEN` with an explicit `OMB_PORT`", "Pass a `send_id` with every `send_bot_message` and `send_channel_message`, so a retry returns the first receipt", "Use `wait_for_conversation` instead of polling, and on `needs-user` stop and tell the owner a card is waiting", "Check a bot's access level with the owner before sending work. New bots run at Full access unless defaults were changed", "Ask the owner to switch off Settings \u003e General \u003e Usage analytics if nothing beyond model calls should leave the machine" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 65.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 50, "reliability": 60, "schema": 90, "security": 59, "transparency": 57 }, "provenanceScore": 61, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-30", "maintenance": "2026-10-30", "payments": "2026-10-30", "reliability": "2026-10-30", "schema": "2026-10-30", "security": "2026-10-30", "transparency": "2026-10-30" }, "last": "2026-10-30", "oldest": "2026-10-30", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g openmausbot # Node.js 24 or newer, or download the desktop app from https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot/releases/latest", "config": { "mcpServers": { "openmausbot": { "args": [ "mcp" ], "command": "openmausbot", "env": { "OMB_PORT": "8799" } } } }, "headless": { "command": "openmausbot run \"Room Lead\" \"$TASK\" --json --export ./out", "env": { "OMB_PORT": "8799" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.multi-agent", "tool": "https://letme.dev/openmausbot" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "MausBot Cloud Starter (100 computer-hours)", "unit": "month", "usd": 15, "note": "Model usage billed by the owner's provider" }, { "item": "MausBot Cloud Pro (300 computer-hours, $10 Claude credit)", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "Model usage beyond the credit billed by the owner's provider" }, { "item": "MausBot Cloud Max (800 computer-hours, $20 Claude credit)", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "Model usage beyond the credit billed by the owner's provider" }, { "item": "MausBot Team (up to 5 people)", "unit": "month", "usd": 169, "note": "$135 a month billed yearly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Supamaus Software Private Limited", "domain": "mausbot.com", "domainRegistered": "2026-09-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://mausbot.com/terms", "privacy": "https://mausbot.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-30", "notes": [ "The terms name Supamaus Software Private Limited, a company incorporated in India, with the laws of India and the courts at Pune. The contact page gives CIN U62011PN2026PTC259029 and names Milind Soni, Director, as grievance officer.", "The licence file and the enterprise licence read Copyright 2026 Milind Soni. LICENSING.md says the OpenMausBot and MausBot names and the mascot are trademarks of Supamaus Software Private Limited.", "RDAP at Verisign gives 2026-08-12 for openmausbot.com and 2026-09-30 for mausbot.com. The GitHub repository was created on 11 August 2026.", "www.openmausbot.com and docs.openmausbot.com disallow our crawler in robots.txt (ClaudeBot and anthropic-ai on www, every user agent on docs), so neither was read. mausbot.com allows all and was read. The docs site's source is in the repository under apps/docs and was read there.", "mausbot.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 30 October 2026. SECURITY.md in the repository gives an email and GitHub private vulnerability reporting.", "The software runs on the owner's machine, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check for the listed surface. MausBot Cloud is a hosted option with no status page found." ], "score": 61 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmausbot.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Amazon Web Services", "b": "Supamaus Software Private Limited", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary. Licensed as AWS Content under the AWS Customer Agreement and the AWS Intellectual Property Licence (https://kiro.dev/license/). The GitHub repository is the public issue tracker and doesn't hold the source", "b": "Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "20", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-14", "b": "2026-10-30", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-08-14", "b": "2026-10-10", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-18", "b": "2026-10-18", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "4.4k stars", "b": "8.2k stars, 3.5k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.8/5 (4)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "OpenMausBot scores 65.4 (B) on agent readiness against Kiro CLI's 60.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Kiro CLI leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Kiro CLI or OpenMausBot?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Kiro CLI. OpenMausBot is open source (Apache-2.0).", "question": "Are Kiro CLI and OpenMausBot open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 69 against 59", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 59" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams on AWS that want one agent configuration across terminal, IDE and web, with central permission policy, prompt logging to their own S3 bucket and IAM Identity Centre sign-in.", "slug": "kiro-cli", "watchFor": "Free and individual paid accounts have content used for service improvement, including model training, unless they opt out" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 79", "Agent ergonomics, 77 against 67", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 40" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A person or an outside agent who wants several CLI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, ACP CLIs) organised as named bots with their own computers, routines and approvals, driven by MCP or a CLI.", "slug": 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CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-unstoppable.json", "title": "OpenMausBot vs Unstoppable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-unstoppable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "OpenMausBot vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-warp.json", "title": "OpenMausBot vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-warp" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 3, "edge": "openmausbot", "key": "reliability", "kiro-cli": 57, "name": "Reliability", "openmausbot": 60, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "openmausbot", "key": "schema", "kiro-cli": 79, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "openmausbot": 90, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "openmausbot", "key": "ergonomics", "kiro-cli": 67, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "openmausbot": 77, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "kiro-cli", "key": "security", "kiro-cli": 69, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "openmausbot": 59, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "openmausbot", "key": "payments", "kiro-cli": 40, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "openmausbot": 50, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "openmausbot", "key": "maintenance", "kiro-cli": 73, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "openmausbot": 74, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "kiro-cli", "key": "transparency", "kiro-cli": 71, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "openmausbot": 59, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "OpenMausBot scores 65.4 (B) on agent readiness against Kiro CLI's 60.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Kiro CLI leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent harnesses.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "kiro-cli": "Permission rules follow deny over ask over allow, cloned repositories can't add rules, and a headless session treats every ask as a deny. Content from Free and individual paid accounts is used for service improvement, including model training, unless the user opts out, and API keys for pipelines need a paid plan.", "openmausbot": "A bounded 20-tool MCP server with typed schemas, annotations and idempotent sends, and a headless CLI with JSON output and exit codes, let another agent hand work to a bot team and wait on it. New bots start at Full access, so provider permission requests pass without a card, and usage analytics stay on until switched off." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-openmausbot", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-openmausbot.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-openmausbot.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-openmausbot.min.md" }, "markdown": "OpenMausBot scores 65.4 (B) on agent readiness against Kiro CLI's 60.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Kiro CLI leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Kiro CLI: grade C, 60.8/100, rank #578 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kiro-cli.json\n- OpenMausBot: grade B, 65.4/100, rank #368 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmausbot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openmausbot.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 875 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Kiro CLI (C)\n\nGood for: Teams on AWS that want one agent configuration across terminal, IDE and web, with central permission policy, prompt logging to their own S3 bucket and IAM Identity Centre sign-in.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 69 against 59\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 59\n\nWatch for: Free and individual paid accounts have content used for service improvement, including model training, unless they opt out\n\n### OpenMausBot (B)\n\nGood for: A person or an outside agent who wants several CLI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, ACP CLIs) organised as named bots with their own computers, routines and approvals, driven by MCP or a CLI.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 79\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 67\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: New bots start at Full access, which approves provider permission requests without a card\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Kiro CLI | OpenMausBot | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 57 | 60 | OpenMausBot +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 90 | OpenMausBot +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 77 | OpenMausBot +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 69 | 59 | Kiro CLI +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 50 | OpenMausBot +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 74 | OpenMausBot +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 59 | Kiro CLI +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.8 · C** | **65.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Kiro CLI | OpenMausBot |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Supamaus Software Private Limited |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary. Licensed as AWS Content under the AWS Customer Agreement and the AWS Intellectual Property Licence (https://kiro.dev/license/). The GitHub repository is the public issue tracker and doesn't hold the source | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | 20 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-30 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2026-10-10 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-10-18 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 4.4k stars | 8.2k stars, 3.5k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Kiro CLI.** Permission rules follow deny over ask over allow, cloned repositories can't add rules, and a headless session treats every ask as a deny. Content from Free and individual paid accounts is used for service improvement, including model training, unless the user opts out, and API keys for pipelines need a paid plan.\n\n**OpenMausBot.** A bounded 20-tool MCP server with typed schemas, annotations and idempotent sends, and a headless CLI with JSON output and exit codes, let another agent hand work to a bot team and wait on it. New bots start at Full access, so provider permission requests pass without a card, and usage analytics stay on until switched off.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Kiro CLI\n\n1. Set `KIRO_API_KEY` and pass `--no-interactive` with `--trust-tools=\u003clist\u003e` in pipelines. Keep `--trust-all-tools` for disposable environments\n2. Pass `--require-mcp-startup` when a run depends on MCP tools. Without it a failed server is logged and the run continues\n3. Pass `--no-interactive` whenever input is piped from a source you don't control, and run 2.10.0 or later on Windows\n4. Run `kiro-cli settings telemetry.enabled false` and turn off content collection on Free and individual plans. Both are on by default\n5. Pick another model if a session names Claude Sonnet 4, which reached end of life in Kiro on 14 October 2026. Kiro doesn't switch it for you\n\n### OpenMausBot\n\n1. Ask the owner for a pairing code from Settings \u003e Phone, exchange it at `POST /api/auth/pair`, and set `OPENMAUSBOT_TOKEN` with an explicit `OMB_PORT`\n2. Pass a `send_id` with every `send_bot_message` and `send_channel_message`, so a retry returns the first receipt\n3. Use `wait_for_conversation` instead of polling, and on `needs-user` stop and tell the owner a card is waiting\n4. Check a bot's access level with the owner before sending work. New bots run at Full access unless defaults were changed\n5. Ask the owner to switch off Settings \u003e General \u003e Usage analytics if nothing beyond model calls should leave the machine\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Kiro CLI or OpenMausBot?\n\nOpenMausBot scores 65.4 (B) on agent readiness against Kiro CLI's 60.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Kiro CLI leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are Kiro CLI and OpenMausBot open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Kiro CLI. OpenMausBot is open source (Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-openmausbot.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-openmausbot.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"kiro-cli\", \"b\": \"openmausbot\"}`. 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