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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": 60.6, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 557, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 40, "reliability": 57, "schema": 79, "security": 69, "transparency": 69 }, "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": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 40, "reliability": 57, "schema": 79, "security": 69, "transparency": 66 }, "provenanceScore": 72 }, "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": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.json", "live": { "slug": "kiro-cli", "githubStars": 4369, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://kiro.dev/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T15:54:17.549782163Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://kiro.dev/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T14:25:20.506213471Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "kiro.dev", "registered": "2019-03-01", "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/kiro.dev", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:41:07.664468218Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://kiro.dev/changelog/cli/", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:32:19.18167639Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-15T21:29:04.182775461Z", "fingerprint": "930a7f669a07" }, { "url": "https://kiro.dev/changelog/models/", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:32:21.302600812Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "46e921a92cc6" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T23:32:21.302600812Z" } }, "answer": "Kiro CLI and Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.6 (C) and 59.8 (C). Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "warp", "name": "Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "vendor": "Warp", "vendorUrl": "https://www.warp.dev", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Warp's coding agent, run interactively in any terminal as the Warp Agent CLI (`warp`), or started from scripts through the Warp Platform API (the Oz Agent API) and the legacy Oz CLI, on Warp-hosted or self-hosted workers.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/warp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/warp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/warp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/warp.json", "repo": "https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp", "license": "Mixed. The client, including the `warp` and `oz` binaries, is AGPL-3.0 with the `warpui_core` and `warpui` crates under MIT. The server, the built-in agent harness, Warp Drive backend and Oz orchestration are proprietary, under Warp's Software and Services Licence Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "warp-platform-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@warp-dot-dev/warp-platform-sdk" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A Warp account is required. The `warp` CLI signs in with a device code in the browser, or takes a Warp API key in `WARP_API_KEY` (or `--api-key`). The Oz CLI uses `oz login` or the same key. The API takes the key as a bearer token. Personal keys act as the user, agent keys run as one cloud agent on the team, and each key expires after 1, 30 or 90 days or never.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free is $0 with Warp Agent CLI access and limited cloud agent use, but no bundled Warp inference, so the agent needs purchased usage (at a premium on Free) or your own provider key. Build is $20 a month with $20 of usage at API rates, Max $200 with $200, Business $50 a seat a month with $20 a seat, and Enterprise by quote. Cloud runs add compute and agent-hour platform charges, and no agent-hour rate was found on the pricing page (checked 2026-10-18).", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs bundles, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-18).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-18" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.warp.dev/agents/cli/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.warp.dev/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.warp.dev/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "official", "harness", "coding-agent", "cli", "cloud-agent", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "sdk", "python", "typescript", "status-page", "free-tier", "open-source", "rust", "telemetry-default-on", "pre-1.0" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 592, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 18, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 20, "reliability": 52, "schema": 89, "security": 52, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-18" }, "negative": -1, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-05-06. The release of 6 May 2026 fixed a command injection vulnerability when opening files in external editors on Linux. It is recorded as one changelog line with no advisory, CVE or affected versions that we found, and api.osv.dev listed no advisories for the project's packages on 18 October 2026 (our GitHub record). Fixed, so 1 point. Judgement call. Dependency updates for GHSA-5pmw-9j92-3c4c (15 April) and CVE-2026-50185 (31 July) were not counted (https://docs.warp.dev/changelog/2026/)" ], "verdict": "The Warp Platform API has a public OpenAPI file, RFC 7807 errors with a `retryable` flag and Python and TypeScript SDKs. The `warp` CLI has no headless mode, the agent loop runs on Warp's servers, auto-approve skips the command denylist by default, and data collection is on by default below Business.", "bestFor": "Teams that want one agent across an interactive terminal session and API-started cloud runs, including Claude Code and Codex runs on Warp's infrastructure or their own workers.", "strengths": [ "An OpenAPI 3.0 file for the Warp Platform API with 293 schemas, and RFC 7807 errors that carry a machine-readable code and a `retryable` flag", "Runs can be started, listed, followed up, interrupted and cancelled over HTTP, with cursor pagination and filters by state, task status and name", "Execution profiles set shell, edit, read, MCP and child-agent permissions separately, and the default denylist covers `rm`, `curl`, `wget`, `eval` and `ssh`", "Weekly dated releases, 15 between 23 July and 15 October 2026, from an AGPL-3.0 client repository with CI on pull requests", "Cloud runs can use the Warp Agent, Claude Code or Codex harness, on Warp-hosted or self-hosted workers" ], "weaknesses": [ "The `warp` CLI has no print or headless mode. Scripts go through the legacy Oz CLI or the API, both of which need a Warp account", "Auto-approve bypasses the command denylist by default, and no local OS sandbox is documented for the CLI", "AI interactions and console inputs are collected by default on Free and on paid plans below Business, and the documented opt-out is in the desktop app", "The agent harness and Oz orchestration are proprietary and run server-side. Only the client is open source", "The install script checks no checksum, and no security.txt, bug bounty or SLA was found", "The terms forbid accessing the Services by robot, scraper or other automated means and using them to build a competitive product" ], "agentNotes": [ "For unattended work, call `POST https://app.warp.dev/api/v1/agent/runs` with `Authorization: Bearer $WARP_API_KEY`. The `warp` CLI is interactive only", "Use an agent key, scoped to one cloud agent and given an expiry, for CI rather than a personal key. Keys are created in the Oz web app or the Warp app", "Set `auto_approve_bypasses_command_denylist = false` under `[agents.warp_agent.other]` before starting `warp --auto-approve`", "Read `code` and `retryable` in error bodies. A 429 `resource_unavailable` means capacity is full and the platform retries the task itself", "Pin a version with `WARP_TUI_VERSION` at install, or set `general.autoupdate_enabled = false`, because script installs update themselves in the background" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 20, "reliability": 52, "schema": 89, "security": 52, "transparency": 57 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://app.warp.dev/download/agent-cli | bash # or: brew install --cask warp-agent-cli", "http": "curl -X POST https://app.warp.dev/api/v1/agent/runs \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $WARP_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"prompt\": \"Scan the repo for outdated dependencies and summarize the findings.\", \"config\": {\"environment_id\": \"\u003cENV_ID\u003e\"}}'", "headless": { "command": "oz agent run --prompt \"$TASK\"", "env": { "WARP_API_KEY": "wk-..." } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/warp" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Build plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "includes $20 of agent usage at API rates" }, { "item": "Max plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 200, "note": "includes $200 of agent usage" }, { "item": "Business seat", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 50, "note": "includes $20 of usage a seat, up to 25 seats" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Denver Technologies, Inc. (d/b/a Warp)", "domain": "warp.dev", "domainRegistered": "2020-08-24", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.warp.dev/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.warp.dev/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.warp.dev", "changelog": "https://docs.warp.dev/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-18", "notes": [ "The Software and Services Licence Agreement names Denver Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Warp.dev, and the privacy notice names Denver Technologies, Inc., d.b.a. Warp. Neither page shows an update date.", "Google Registry RDAP gives warp.dev a registration date of 2020-08-24.", "The API is served from app.warp.dev, on the vendor's domain.", "www.warp.dev/.well-known/security.txt and docs.warp.dev/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 18 October 2026, and app.warp.dev returns its web app for that path. SECURITY.md in the repository names security@warp.dev and private GitHub advisories.", "Subprocessors are listed at https://www.warp.dev/legal/subprocessors, which answered but was not read in full." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/warp.json", "live": { "slug": "warp", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.warp.dev", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T00:05:54.91162396Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.warp.dev/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:30:03.195087321Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1c834a16b833" }, { "url": "https://www.warp.dev/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:49:41.116041757Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6dfc754a2e88" }, { "url": "https://www.warp.dev/legal/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:49:43.524624062Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b87c7cf7e26c" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T00:05:54.91162396Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Amazon Web Services", "b": "Warp", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "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": "Mixed. The client, including the `warp` and `oz` binaries, is AGPL-3.0 with the `warpui_core` and `warpui` crates under MIT. The server, the built-in agent harness, Warp Drive backend and Oz orchestration are proprietary, under Warp's Software and Services Licence Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-14", "b": "2026-10-15", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-08-14", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-18", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "4.4k stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.8/5 (4)", "b": "3.3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Kiro CLI and Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.6 (C) and 59.8 (C). Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Kiro CLI or Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Kiro CLI. Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) is open source (Mixed. The client, including the `warp` and `oz` binaries, is AGPL-3.0 with the `warpui_core` and `warpui` crates under MIT. The server, the built-in agent harness, Warp Drive backend and Oz orchestration are proprietary, under Warp's Software and Services Licence Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0).", "question": "Are Kiro CLI and Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 57 against 52", "Security \u0026 auth, 69 against 52", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "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, 89 against 79", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 73" ], "also": [ "Open source", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 2.8 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want one agent across an interactive terminal session and API-started cloud runs, including Claude Code and Codex runs on Warp's infrastructure or their own workers.", "slug": "warp", "watchFor": "The `warp` CLI has no print or headless mode. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-warp.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-warp.json", "title": "Parallax vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-warp" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 5, "edge": "kiro-cli", "key": "reliability", "kiro-cli": 57, "name": "Reliability", "warp": 52, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "warp", "key": "schema", "kiro-cli": 79, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "warp": 89, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "kiro-cli", "key": "ergonomics", "kiro-cli": 67, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "warp": 66, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "kiro-cli", "key": "security", "kiro-cli": 69, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "warp": 52, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "kiro-cli", "key": "payments", "kiro-cli": 40, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "warp": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "warp", "key": "maintenance", "kiro-cli": 73, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "warp": 84, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 3, "edge": "warp", "key": "transparency", "kiro-cli": 69, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "warp": 72, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Kiro CLI and Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.6 (C) and 59.8 (C). Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. 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.", "warp": "The Warp Platform API has a public OpenAPI file, RFC 7807 errors with a `retryable` flag and Python and TypeScript SDKs. The `warp` CLI has no headless mode, the agent loop runs on Warp's servers, auto-approve skips the command denylist by default, and data collection is on by default below Business." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-warp", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-warp.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-warp.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-warp.min.md" }, "markdown": "Kiro CLI and Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.6 (C) and 59.8 (C). Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Kiro CLI: grade C, 60.6/100, rank #557 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kiro-cli.json\n- Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API): grade C, 59.8/100, rank #592 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/warp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/warp.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 713 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- Reliability, 57 against 52\n- Security \u0026 auth, 69 against 52\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\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### Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that want one agent across an interactive terminal session and API-started cloud runs, including Claude Code and Codex runs on Warp's infrastructure or their own workers.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 79\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 73\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 2.8 out of 5\n\nWatch for: The `warp` CLI has no print or headless mode. Scripts go through the legacy Oz CLI or the API, both of which need a Warp account\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Kiro CLI | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 57 | 52 | Kiro CLI +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 89 | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 66 | Kiro CLI +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 69 | 52 | Kiro CLI +17 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 20 | Kiro CLI +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 84 | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) +11 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 72 | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | -1 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.6 · C** | **59.8 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Kiro CLI | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Warp |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\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 | Mixed. The client, including the `warp` and `oz` binaries, is AGPL-3.0 with the `warpui_core` and `warpui` crates under MIT. The server, the built-in agent harness, Warp Drive backend and Oz orchestration are proprietary, under Warp's Software and Services Licence Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-15 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Popularity | 4.4k stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |\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**Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API).** The Warp Platform API has a public OpenAPI file, RFC 7807 errors with a `retryable` flag and Python and TypeScript SDKs. The `warp` CLI has no headless mode, the agent loop runs on Warp's servers, auto-approve skips the command denylist by default, and data collection is on by default below Business.\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### Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)\n\n1. For unattended work, call `POST https://app.warp.dev/api/v1/agent/runs` with `Authorization: Bearer $WARP_API_KEY`. The `warp` CLI is interactive only\n2. Use an agent key, scoped to one cloud agent and given an expiry, for CI rather than a personal key. Keys are created in the Oz web app or the Warp app\n3. Set `auto_approve_bypasses_command_denylist = false` under `[agents.warp_agent.other]` before starting `warp --auto-approve`\n4. Read `code` and `retryable` in error bodies. A 429 `resource_unavailable` means capacity is full and the platform retries the task itself\n5. Pin a version with `WARP_TUI_VERSION` at install, or set `general.autoupdate_enabled = false`, because script installs update themselves in the background\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Kiro CLI or Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)?\n\nKiro CLI and Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.6 (C) and 59.8 (C). Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Are Kiro CLI and Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Kiro CLI. Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) is open source (Mixed. The client, including the `warp` and `oz` binaries, is AGPL-3.0 with the `warpui_core` and `warpui` crates under MIT. The server, the built-in agent harness, Warp Drive backend and Oz orchestration are proprietary, under Warp's Software and Services Licence Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-warp.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-warp.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"kiro-cli\", \"b\": \"warp\"}`. 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