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September 11, 2026 Session Search Scope, V2 Harness Flag, and Unified Settings Keyboard 2.21.4 Choose whether session search covers agent responses, run a single session on the V2 harness, and move through every settings menu with the same keys. This version lets you choose what session search covers, adds a flag that selects the V2 agent harness for a single run, and gives every settings menu the same keyboard behavior. Choose what session search covers In V3, /sessions search indexes session titles, your prompts, and agent responses, so you can find a session by what Kiro answered rather than only by what you asked. Open /settings and choose Session search to switch between Prompts only and Prompts and agent responses . Tool output is not indexed in either mode. If your local index currently covers prompts only, /sessions asks once before rebuilding it. Learn more -> Select the agent harness for a single run Pass --v2 to run one session on the V2 agent harness. It works on both kiro-cli and kiro-cli chat , and it takes precedence over a saved chat.agentEngine value without overwriting it, so your default stays as you set it. Learn more -> Improvements Fixes { PREVIOUS }

September 1, 2026 Session Dashboard, Configuration Panel, and Cloud Sync 2.21.0 Browse and manage local and cloud sessions, inspect configured resources, and apply cloud configuration to new local V3 sessions. This release adds a V3 dashboard for browsing, searching, resuming, and cleaning up local and cloud sessions. A new configuration panel brings your configured resources together in one terminal view. Configuration Sync can also apply your uploaded cloud configuration to new local CLI sessions. Session dashboard (V3) In V3, open /sessions or run kiro-cli chat --sessions to browse, search, resume, and clean up past sessions stored locally or in the cloud. Learn more -> Configuration panel (V3) In a local or cloud V3 session, run /config to view configured agents, MCP servers, Powers, Steering, Skills, and Hooks in one place. When source information is available, the panel identifies items as local, cloud, or both. Learn more -> Cloud configuration in local sessions (V3) Upload your personal .kiro configuration with Configuration Sync in Kiro Web. Cloud sessions use the uploaded configuration automatically; enable Apply your cloud configuration to local sessions to load cloud

September 1, 2026 Cloud Configuration, Synced Powers, and Agent Focus Reliability 1.0.437 With Cloud configuration enabled, your supported personal configuration appears across the IDE and Agent Focus, and cloud-synced Powers are ready to try from the installed list. This version also keeps in-progress cloud-session drafts available across navigation and preserves the welcome view until you send your first prompt. Use Cloud configuration across the IDE When Cloud configuration is enabled for your account, access personal Steering, custom agents, Skills, Powers, and Hooks from their usual IDE surfaces. Cloud indicators identify items managed in Kiro Web. Steering, Skills, and Hooks open as read-only previews with an Edit in web action, and Agent Focus shows the same source and management links. Learn more -> Try cloud-synced Powers in the IDE Cloud-synced Powers now appear in the installed Powers list, where you can select Try power and review their bundled Skills and MCP configuration. Manage these account-backed Powers in Kiro Web. Learn more -> Fixes { PREVIOUS } Longer Sessions, Smoother Migration, and Permissions Fixes { NEXT }

September 1, 2026 Export Kiro usage metrics to OpenTelemetry Account administrators can now send per-user Kiro usage metrics to their OpenTelemetry-compatible observability platform. Monitor adoption, engagement, and credit consumption by user and model without configuring individual developer environments. Use OTLP alongside the existing daily CSV report to integrate Kiro metrics directly into dashboards and monitoring workflows. Connect Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace, Elastic, Honeycomb, OpenSearch through an OTLP receiver, or your own collector using OTLP/gRPC or HTTP/protobuf. Set up one account-level export in the Kiro console with an AWS Secrets Manager secret and a publicly reachable OTLP endpoint. Kiro delivers metrics server-side every day at 02:00 UTC. Learn more -> { PREVIOUS } Per-model message counts in user activity reports { NEXT } Kiro is now a HIPAA eligible service

September 1, 2026 Kiro is covered by AWS ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification Kiro is now included among the AWS services covered by ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification . This gives security, procurement, and vendor-risk teams a recognized, independently verified reference point when evaluating Kiro as part of their reviews. ISO/IEC 27001 sets requirements for an information security management system: the policies, processes, responsibilities, and controls an organization uses to identify and manage information security risks. These certifications are performed by independent third-party auditors. Note: The certified scope is Kiro, excluding Fable. Unless a service is specifically excluded, AWS states that all of its features are in scope. Refer to the current AWS services-in-scope listing when documenting coverage in your own reviews. For details on Kiro's compliance posture, see the Compliance validation documentation. { PREVIOUS } Kiro for Students { NEXT } Introducing Kiro Pro Max