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Kiro Crew


  A persistent workspace for development work that self-improves and continues beyond one session.



  



  Kiro Crew is an open source development workspace that runs locally or remotely on
  your hardware. It is persistent, self-learning, and self-evolving. Work with it
  from the desktop app, web dashboard, and CLI, or continue the same work through
  connection tools like Slack and Discord.
  Your multi-step tasks can run unattended, recurring jobs run on your schedule,
  and heartbeats monitor systems until something needs attention. Kiro Crew Apps
  tailor that experience to a specific job, combining a purpose-built interface
  with agents, skills, schedules, integrations, and backend services.



  
  
  
  
  
  



  Quick start ·
  Build from source ·
  Why Kiro Crew ·
  Capabilities ·
  How it works ·
  Security ·
  Install ·
  Telemetry ·
  Docs


 Quick start

You choose how to run Kiro Crew: the desktop app with automatic updates, a
one-line install on your machine or a remote host, the Docker image for
always-on servers, or a build from source. The default agent runs on
kiro-cli, which you install and sign in to separately. First launch checks
that prerequisite and links to the official setup guide when it is missing.

 App downloads

Each link fetches the newest build on that channel, and the app then updates
itself on the same channel. Take Stable unless you have a reason not to; see
Release channels below.

| Download | Stable | Insider | Nightly |
|---|---|---|---|
| macOS (Apple Silicon/Intel) .dmg | Stable | Insider | Nightly |
| Windows (x64) .exe | Stable | Insider | Nightly |
| Linux x86_64 .deb | Stable | Insider | Nightly |
| Linux aarch64 .deb | Stable | Insider | Nightly |
| Linux x86_64 .rpm | Stable | Insider | Nightly |
| Linux aarch64 .rpm | Stable | Insider | Nightly |
| Linux x86_64 AppImage | Stable | Insider | Nightly |
| Linux aarch64 AppImage | Stable | Insider | Nightly |

On Linux, start with the one-line install below and add a desktop package when
you want a native window and in-app updates. The
install guide owns
which Linux package to pick, platform requirements, and sandbox setup.

 Release channels

Stable is the default; Insider follows release candidates, and Nightly follows
main. The release runbook owns the
current triggers, version shapes, promotion behavior, cadence, and update-lane
semantics.

 One-line install

Install the signed Stable wheel without cloning the repository or building the
frontend:

bash
curl -fsSL https://download.crew.kiro.dev/cli.sh | sh


Then open http://localhost:5476. Pass --version to pin an exact release —
the minimum pinnable release is 0.1.2, because 0.1.0 and 0.1.1 predate
manifest signing and have no signed manifest to resolve:

bash
curl -fsSL https://download.crew.kiro.dev/cli.sh | sh -s -- --version 0.6.0


The install guide owns
channel selection, managed versus system Python, mirrors, first-run setup,
upgrades, and recovery.

 Docker

For always

Top issues

Discussions

Latest release

A hot patch for 0.12.0: the KAS engine and the Claude backend follow your agent specs, hooks and MCP servers the way kiro-cli does, chats pick up after a planned restart and queued messages wait their turn, and schedules run in the right workspace with a bounded history. A broad set of security, Windows, desktop and accessibility fixes lands with them.

 Notable fixes

Chat and sessions. Chats that a planned restart cut off resume, a queued message waits while its card's editor is open and is checked again right before it runs, and a session's own messages are never held behind its sub-agents.