AI Agents: AWS launches open-source Kiro Crew to manage them

Kiro Crew is an "orchestrator" for your AI coding agents, the ones that help you write software. Its main goal is to fix a common, annoying problem: AI agents often forget what they were doing.

You know, like when a virtual assistant helps you for a bit, then you close it, and the next time it's like starting from scratch? Kiro Crew creates a persistent workspace, much like a virtual office where AI agents can leave their notes.

This means your agent doesn't wake up with amnesia every morning. It remembers project context, past conversations, and even the files it was working on. AWS open-sourced Kiro Crew on June 13, 2024, much to the delight of many developers.

The real benefit of Kiro Crew is letting you coordinate a "crew" of AI agents across different projects and repositories. No more chaos with agents stepping on each other's toes or losing crucial data.

You can schedule tasks, assign specific jobs to different agents, and even have them work together on a single goal. It's like having a team of mini-AI developers, each with their specialty, but all in the same room.

Imagine needing to maintain an old piece of code while simultaneously developing a new one. With Kiro Crew, one agent can handle the former, while another focuses on the latter, without you having to babysit either.