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Released fixes with no advisory, one term. 2.33.0 (20 October 2026) says V3 hook commands on Windows no longer run a same-named program from the working directory and the semantic-search model download no longer extracts a file outside its model directory. 2.34.0 (23 October) says V3 headless mode no longer approves requests that name no trusted tool and remote HTTP MCP servers follow only same-origin redirects. No AWS bulletin or CVE covers them on 3 November (https://kiro.dev/changelog/cli/2-34/). -3", "2026-08-04. CVE-2026-18657 (bulletin 2026-074-AWS, High, CVSS 3.1 7.8), an uncontrolled search path on Windows let a planted executable in a crafted project directory run when a user started Kiro CLI there. Kiro CLI for Windows before 2.10.0. CVE-2026-18656 in the same bulletin is the Kiro IDE record. Fixed and published with credit to the reporter, over two months ago (https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-074-aws/). -1", "2026-05-22. CVE-2026-9255 (bulletin 2026-035-AWS, High, CVSS 3.1 7.8), 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, over two months ago (https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-035-aws/). -1" ], "verdict": "Permission rules follow deny over ask over allow, and since 3.0.0 (3 November 2026) the V3 engine with workspace trust is the default. Content from Free and individual paid accounts is used for service improvement, including model training, unless the user opts out, and October releases fixed approval and Windows search-path flaws with no security advisory.", "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", "25 dated releases between 11 August and 3 November 2026, with 3.0.0's breaking changes listed in the release", "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 is off unless chosen even with V3 the default, and AWS says managed permission policies are client-enforced", "Two CLI CVEs in 2026, both fixed, and fixes for a Windows search-path flaw and a headless approval flaw in October with no advisory" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `KIRO_API_KEY` and pass `--no-interactive` with `--trust-tools=\u003clist\u003e` in pipelines. 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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. 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Privacy Mode is opt-in for individuals, and the README says Sentry and PostHog may be on in release builds.", "bestFor": "Teams who want several coding agents working together with shared context and boards.", "strengths": [ "Runs agents you already pay for, or Traycer's own inference", "Shares context across models and lets agents message each other", "macOS, Linux and Windows builds, with package-manager installs", "MIT, with CodeQL, Scorecard and secret scanning" ], "weaknesses": [ "Privacy Mode is opt-in for individuals; with it off, prompts may be logged", "Sentry and PostHog may be enabled in release builds, with no opt-out in the README", "Inference subscription price not found on the pages read" ], "agentNotes": [ "Turn on Privacy Mode if you're an individual user and don't want prompts logged", "CLI agents you configure send requests straight to their provider; Traycer's own inference goes through Traycer" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 30, "reliability": 65, "schema": 65, "security": 42, "transparency": 66 }, "provenanceScore": 53, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-07", "maintenance": "2026-11-07", "payments": "2026-11-07", "reliability": "2026-11-07", "schema": "2026-11-07", "security": "2026-11-07", "transparency": "2026-11-07" }, "last": "2026-11-07", "oldest": "2026-11-07", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "Download for macOS, Linux or Windows from the releases page" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/traycer" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Traycer AI", "domain": "traycer.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "domainNote": "Not looked up: RDAP isn't requested under the 1 November 2026 rules.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/traycerai/traycer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-07", "notes": [ "The licence names Traycer AI. The repository is github.com/traycerai/traycer." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/traycer.json", "live": { "slug": "traycer", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://traycer.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:47.880384121Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/traycerai/traycer/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:23:51.024738302Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d3f389f721e9" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:47.880384121Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 27, "category": "security", "leads": "kiro-cli", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing), five lines. Telemetry and content collection are on by default for Free and individual accounts, each with a documented opt-out, and enterprise users are opted out. API keys are long-lived and revocable with no scopes, and administrators must switch key generation on (14). Deny over ask over allow across six scopes, hard-coded denies on Kiro's own settings paths, workspace trust and a managed policy that fails closed. V3 is the default since 3.0.0 (3 November 2026), interactive V3 sessions ask before loading a folder's hooks, agents and MCP servers since 2.33.0, and `/sandbox` puts agent shell commands and local stdio MCP servers in an operating-system sandbox. The sandbox is off unless chosen and doesn't cover the agent, built-in file tools or remote MCP servers, and AWS says managed policies are client-enforced and can be circumvented (17). An untrusted workspace doesn't load its agents, steering, MCP configuration or skills, compound shell commands are split before matching, and the MCP page warns that servers run outside any sandbox (11). Enterprise prompt logging to the customer's S3 bucket covers the CLI, with daily activity reports and OpenTelemetry export, and individuals have local logs only (11). AWS vulnerability reporting through a HackerOne disclosure programme with no paid bounty, CVEs published in security bulletins with credit to reporters, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 scope and HIPAA eligibility. The aws.amazon.com security.txt is valid (Expires 2027-10-16) and kiro.dev/.well-known/security.txt answers 404, so 2 are held back for that and 2 for no bounty (16). 14+17+11+11+16 = 69.", "b": "Harness reading. Code is processed in memory and not used for training, but Privacy Mode is opt-in for individuals, prompts may be logged with it off, and Sentry and PostHog 'may be enabled in release builds' (10 of 30). No approval model described in the README (8 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance (5). No audit log found (5). SECURITY.md, CodeQL, Scorecard and secret scanning (14 of 20). 10 + 8 + 5 + 5 + 14 = 42." }, "scores": { "a": 69, "b": 42 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "schema", "leads": "kiro-cli", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Framework reading. A command reference, a settings reference, an exit-code page and a documented rule format for permissions, plus the Agent Client Protocol methods the CLI implements. No published schema for the stream-json events was found (14). kiro.dev/llms.txt indexes every docs page and each has a Markdown twin, though robots.txt disallows both for crawlers (10). The permissions page states the defaults, what each preset allows and when to pick it, and that headless runs treat ask as deny (16). Rules are validated, an unknown preset rejects the session request, and a malformed managed policy fails closed (12). CI examples, exit codes 0, 1, 3 and 4 and hook exit codes are documented, but code 1 covers every other failure (12). Versioned releases with a dated changelog and a 2.x reference kept beside V3 (15).", "b": "Harness reading. Mintlify docs, a protocol package and a CLI (65)." }, "scores": { "a": 79, "b": 65 } }, { "by": 11, "category": "transparency", "leads": "kiro-cli", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Proprietary, with clear terms. The licence page puts the CLI under the AWS Customer Agreement and the AWS Intellectual Property Licence, where the Amazon Q Developer CLI it replaced was Apache 2.0, per the 8 October check (15). The data protection page (updated 23 October 2026) says what is stored for Free, individual and enterprise users, names US East (N. Virginia) for storage, and gives 60 days for Free Tier abuse detection and 30 days for some models. It agrees with sections 50.3 and 50.14 of the AWS Service Terms, read on 8 October. No general retention period for stored content was found (22). The models page has a model lifecycle section with Experimental, Active and EOL stages and dates, and Claude Sonnet 4 ended on 14 October 2026. 3.0.0 made V3 the default as 2.30.0 announced and retired the Classic interface 34 days after the 2.26.0 deprecation notice, but the desktop app and inline autocomplete were retired in the same release with no earlier notice found, and no minimum notice period is stated (14). Telemetry types are listed and `kiro-cli settings telemetry.enabled` turns them off, with collection on by default. The data protection page's CLI steps still point to the desktop app's Preferences, which 3.0.0 retired (15). 15+22+14+15 = 66.", "b": "MIT (30). README privacy section and a linked privacy policy (not read) (18 of 30). CHANGELOG.md, no deprecation policy (10). Analytics described as 'may be enabled', with no opt-out given in the README (8 of 20). 30 + 18 + 10 + 8 = 66." }, "scores": { "a": 71, "b": 60 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "payments", "leads": "kiro-cli", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Kiro subscription the CLI needs. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices, the $0.04 credit price and per-model credit multipliers are public without a login (20). Kiro Free has 50 credits a month, and the pricing page asks for a card only on upgrade (20). A person signs in through a browser or device flow, and the API key for headless runs is created by hand at app.kiro.dev on a paid plan (0).", "b": "Scored on the paid option, Traycer's own inference subscription, whose price wasn't read (0 of 20). No protocol (0). Bring-your-own-agent use is free (20). Accounts for sync and teams weren't checked, half (10). 0 + 0 + 20 + 10 = 30." }, "scores": { "a": 40, "b": 30 } }, { "by": 8, "category": "reliability", "leads": "traycer", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Local-package reading, the same as the other closed-source harnesses. An install script that verifies SHA-256 checksums, a .deb, an AppImage and a PowerShell script, with macOS, Windows 11 and Linux (glibc 2.34 or newer, or musl) stated, per the 8 October check (20). No public CI or test suite, since the source isn't published and the GitHub repository is an issue tracker whose newest commit is 27 August (0). Per the 8 October check, not re-read on 3 November, 1,401 open issues in the shared Kiro tracker, 428 labelled cli, with 96 cli issues opened and 69 closed in the 30 days to 8 October, area labels, a triage label and stale-issue automation (12). A dated changelog for every release, and 3.0.0 lists its breaking changes under their own heading with a migration route, though 2.24.0 stopped loading project `.env` files in a minor version (10). 3.0.0 on 3 November 2026 makes V3 the default engine (15). 20+0+12+10+15 = 57.", "b": "Local software. Builds for macOS, Linux and Windows, and package-manager publishing workflows (20). test.yml, CodeQL, OpenSSF Scorecard and secret scanning run on the repository; pass state not read (15). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). CHANGELOG.md (15). Host 1.5.3 (15). 20 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 15 = 65." }, "scores": { "a": 57, "b": 65 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Amazon Web Services", "b": "Traycer AI", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "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/). 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-traycer.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Traycer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-traycer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-traycer.json", "title": "Parallax vs Traycer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-traycer" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 8, "edge": "traycer", "key": "reliability", "kiro-cli": 57, "name": "Reliability", "traycer": 65, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "kiro-cli", "key": "schema", "kiro-cli": 79, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "traycer": 65, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "kiro-cli", "key": "ergonomics", "kiro-cli": 67, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "traycer": 65, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 27, "edge": "kiro-cli", "key": "security", "kiro-cli": 69, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "traycer": 42, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 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Traycer leads on reliability. Both do agent harnesses.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "kiro-cli": "Permission rules follow deny over ask over allow, and since 3.0.0 (3 November 2026) the V3 engine with workspace trust is the default. Content from Free and individual paid accounts is used for service improvement, including model training, unless the user opts out, and October releases fixed approval and Windows search-path flaws with no security advisory.", "traycer": "An open-source app for running several coding agents together with shared context, agent-to-agent messaging and team boards, on every desktop OS. Privacy Mode is opt-in for individuals, and the README says Sentry and PostHog may be on in release builds." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-traycer", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-traycer.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-traycer.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-traycer.min.md" }, "markdown": "Kiro CLI scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against Traycer's 57 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Traycer leads on reliability. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Kiro CLI: grade C, 59.8/100, rank #678 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kiro-cli.json\n- Traycer: grade C, 57/100, rank #816 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/traycer.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/traycer.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 1500 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- Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 69 against 42\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 60\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Free and individual paid accounts have content used for service improvement, including model training, unless they opt out\n\n### Traycer (C)\n\nGood for: Teams who want several coding agents working together with shared context and boards.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 65 against 57\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n- No incidents deducted, where Kiro CLI loses 5 points for them\n\nWatch for: Privacy Mode is opt-in for individuals; with it off, prompts may be logged\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Kiro CLI +27\n\n- Kiro CLI (69): Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing), five lines. Telemetry and content collection are on by default for Free and individual accounts, each with a documented opt-out, and enterprise users are opted out. API keys are long-lived and revocable with no scopes, and administrators must switch key generation on (14). Deny over ask over allow across six scopes, hard-coded denies on Kiro's own settings paths, workspace trust and a managed policy that fails closed. V3 is the default since 3.0.0 (3 November 2026), interactive V3 sessions ask before loading a folder's hooks, agents and MCP servers since 2.33.0, and `/sandbox` puts agent shell commands and local stdio MCP servers in an operating-system sandbox. The sandbox is off unless chosen and doesn't cover the agent, built-in file tools or remote MCP servers, and AWS says managed policies are client-enforced and can be circumvented (17). An untrusted workspace doesn't load its agents, steering, MCP configuration or skills, compound shell commands are split before matching, and the MCP page warns that servers run outside any sandbox (11). Enterprise prompt logging to the customer's S3 bucket covers the CLI, with daily activity reports and OpenTelemetry export, and individuals have local logs only (11). AWS vulnerability reporting through a HackerOne disclosure programme with no paid bounty, CVEs published in security bulletins with credit to reporters, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 scope and HIPAA eligibility. The aws.amazon.com security.txt is valid (Expires 2027-10-16) and kiro.dev/.well-known/security.txt answers 404, so 2 are held back for that and 2 for no bounty (16). 14+17+11+11+16 = 69.\n- Traycer (42): Harness reading. Code is processed in memory and not used for training, but Privacy Mode is opt-in for individuals, prompts may be logged with it off, and Sentry and PostHog 'may be enabled in release builds' (10 of 30). No approval model described in the README (8 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance (5). No audit log found (5). SECURITY.md, CodeQL, Scorecard and secret scanning (14 of 20). 10 + 8 + 5 + 5 + 14 = 42.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Kiro CLI +14\n\n- Kiro CLI (79): Framework reading. A command reference, a settings reference, an exit-code page and a documented rule format for permissions, plus the Agent Client Protocol methods the CLI implements. No published schema for the stream-json events was found (14). kiro.dev/llms.txt indexes every docs page and each has a Markdown twin, though robots.txt disallows both for crawlers (10). The permissions page states the defaults, what each preset allows and when to pick it, and that headless runs treat ask as deny (16). Rules are validated, an unknown preset rejects the session request, and a malformed managed policy fails closed (12). CI examples, exit codes 0, 1, 3 and 4 and hook exit codes are documented, but code 1 covers every other failure (12). Versioned releases with a dated changelog and a 2.x reference kept beside V3 (15).\n- Traycer (65): Harness reading. Mintlify docs, a protocol package and a CLI (65).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Kiro CLI +11\n\n- Kiro CLI (71): Proprietary, with clear terms. The licence page puts the CLI under the AWS Customer Agreement and the AWS Intellectual Property Licence, where the Amazon Q Developer CLI it replaced was Apache 2.0, per the 8 October check (15). The data protection page (updated 23 October 2026) says what is stored for Free, individual and enterprise users, names US East (N. Virginia) for storage, and gives 60 days for Free Tier abuse detection and 30 days for some models. It agrees with sections 50.3 and 50.14 of the AWS Service Terms, read on 8 October. No general retention period for stored content was found (22). The models page has a model lifecycle section with Experimental, Active and EOL stages and dates, and Claude Sonnet 4 ended on 14 October 2026. 3.0.0 made V3 the default as 2.30.0 announced and retired the Classic interface 34 days after the 2.26.0 deprecation notice, but the desktop app and inline autocomplete were retired in the same release with no earlier notice found, and no minimum notice period is stated (14). Telemetry types are listed and `kiro-cli settings telemetry.enabled` turns them off, with collection on by default. The data protection page's CLI steps still point to the desktop app's Preferences, which 3.0.0 retired (15). 15+22+14+15 = 66.\n- Traycer (60): MIT (30). README privacy section and a linked privacy policy (not read) (18 of 30). CHANGELOG.md, no deprecation policy (10). Analytics described as 'may be enabled', with no opt-out given in the README (8 of 20). 30 + 18 + 10 + 8 = 66.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Kiro CLI +10\n\n- Kiro CLI (40): Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Kiro subscription the CLI needs. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices, the $0.04 credit price and per-model credit multipliers are public without a login (20). Kiro Free has 50 credits a month, and the pricing page asks for a card only on upgrade (20). A person signs in through a browser or device flow, and the API key for headless runs is created by hand at app.kiro.dev on a paid plan (0).\n- Traycer (30): Scored on the paid option, Traycer's own inference subscription, whose price wasn't read (0 of 20). No protocol (0). Bring-your-own-agent use is free (20). Accounts for sync and teams weren't checked, half (10). 0 + 0 + 20 + 10 = 30.\n\n### Reliability: Traycer +8\n\n- Kiro CLI (57): Local-package reading, the same as the other closed-source harnesses. An install script that verifies SHA-256 checksums, a .deb, an AppImage and a PowerShell script, with macOS, Windows 11 and Linux (glibc 2.34 or newer, or musl) stated, per the 8 October check (20). No public CI or test suite, since the source isn't published and the GitHub repository is an issue tracker whose newest commit is 27 August (0). Per the 8 October check, not re-read on 3 November, 1,401 open issues in the shared Kiro tracker, 428 labelled cli, with 96 cli issues opened and 69 closed in the 30 days to 8 October, area labels, a triage label and stale-issue automation (12). A dated changelog for every release, and 3.0.0 lists its breaking changes under their own heading with a migration route, though 2.24.0 stopped loading project `.env` files in a minor version (10). 3.0.0 on 3 November 2026 makes V3 the default engine (15). 20+0+12+10+15 = 57.\n- Traycer (65): Local software. Builds for macOS, Linux and Windows, and package-manager publishing workflows (20). test.yml, CodeQL, OpenSSF Scorecard and secret scanning run on the repository; pass state not read (15). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). CHANGELOG.md (15). Host 1.5.3 (15). 20 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 15 = 65.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Kiro CLI | Traycer | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 57 | 65 | Traycer +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 65 | Kiro CLI +14 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 65 | Kiro CLI +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 69 | 42 | Kiro CLI +27 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Kiro CLI +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 75 | Traycer +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 60 | Kiro CLI +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **59.8 · C** | **57 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Kiro CLI | Traycer |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Traycer AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\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 | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-11-03 | 2026-11-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not read yet |\n| Popularity | 4.4k stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Kiro CLI\n\n- -1.0 on 3 November 2026: security\n- +0.1 on 28 October 2026: new evidence\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n### Traycer\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Kiro CLI.** Permission rules follow deny over ask over allow, and since 3.0.0 (3 November 2026) the V3 engine with workspace trust is the default. Content from Free and individual paid accounts is used for service improvement, including model training, unless the user opts out, and October releases fixed approval and Windows search-path flaws with no security advisory.\n\n**Traycer.** An open-source app for running several coding agents together with shared context, agent-to-agent messaging and team boards, on every desktop OS. Privacy Mode is opt-in for individuals, and the README says Sentry and PostHog may be on in release builds.\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. Run 2.34.0 or later. Earlier V3 headless runs could approve requests naming no trusted tool, and Windows hooks could run a planted program\n4. Run `kiro-cli settings telemetry.enabled false` and turn off content collection on Free and individual plans. Both are on by default\n5. Remove `autocomplete`, `inline`, `translate`, `theme` and `dashboard` from scripts, which 3.0.0 retired. Pass `--v2` to keep the V2 agent\n\n### Traycer\n\n1. Turn on Privacy Mode if you're an individual user and don't want prompts logged\n2. CLI agents you configure send requests straight to their provider; Traycer's own inference goes through Traycer\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Kiro CLI or Traycer?\n\nKiro CLI scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against Traycer's 57 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Traycer leads on reliability.\n\n### Are Kiro CLI and Traycer open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Kiro CLI. 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