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Kiro is AWS’s AI IDE; the Kiro CLI is its terminal companion. Skills live under .kiro/skills; MCP config lives under ~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json.

Paths

ResourcePath
Project skills.kiro/skills
Global skills~/.kiro/skills
MCP config~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json
Audit search (project).kiro/skills, .agents/skills, .github/skills
Audit search (global)~/.kiro/skills, ~/.agents/skills, ~/.copilot/skills
Package-manager search~/.kiro/extensions

Skills example

gaal.yaml
skills:
  - source: anthropics/skills
    agents: [kiro-cli]
    global: false

MCP example

gaal.yaml
mcps:
  - name: filesystem
    target: ~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json
    inline:
      command: uvx
      args: [mcp-server-filesystem, ~/projects]

Configure skills

Configure MCP servers