AWS course on Kiro pushes spec-driven development with Skills, Hooks, and MCP
DigitalColmer · x · 2026-07-22
AWS’s Kiro course spotlights specs, hooks, and MCP for agentic coding
The post introduces an AWS course on Spec-Driven Development with Kiro and lists the main building blocks it covers:
- Skills for reusable capabilities, such as generating interactive HTML boards
- Steering files to guide Kiro’s output for a specific role or workflow
- Powers that combine MCP server capabilities with model intelligence
- Specs that define requirements, design, and task breakdowns
- Hooks that enforce workflow checks, including vulnerability scanning
- MCP server installation for tools like AWS docs lookup and deprecated-service checks
The author frames it as an agentic IDE workflow and asks which agent IDE people are using. The screenshot shows Kiro’s UI, including compute sharing and model selection.
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