Kiro Crew (Amazon's coding frontend) is open source

You may have heard of Kiro, it's owned by Amazon, has existed since July 2025 and is the replacement for the older Amazon Q Developer. For various reasons it's not very popular. Maybe because they insist on the free tier only having old models like Sonnet 4.5 and DeepSeek 3.2. Up until recently, it was composed of Kiro IDE (VSCode fork), Kiro CLI (command line client, proprietary), both quite unremarkable. But last month they launched a third product, Kiro Crew. It's a "chat-first" client in the style of Codex or the "Agents" window in VS Code, but most importantly, like the title says, it's open source (Apache 2.0). Blog post: Introducing Kiro Crew GitHub page It surprised me because it looks pretty well polished, yet I had never even heard of it. According to the blog post, it has "been adopted internally by over 39,000 Amazon builders". It's made in react+python for the backend, and can be used locally or remotely from any browser. It internally connects to Kiro CLI through ACP and relies on it for the models. It also has features like Scheduled tasks, subagents Importing data from other clients Browser/Computer use, Skill management Integration with Slack/Discord/Teams chats Now here's the problem: it does not natively support any providers outside the Kiro subscription. I don't know if Amazon will want to add this at some point or not (they might just not want to), but being that this is open source, it should be possible to add it anyway, and given the upside, it would certainly be worth it. If anyone is interested in contributing, there is already a third party patch (not mine). Right now it has a few problems (from my testing: it's not seamless to install, it doesn't have a model switcher, and some models can't do tool calls), but with a bit more work all those could be solved.