Install Extensions in Kiro IDE

Kiro has a CLI similar to VS Code: the kiro command (not kiro-cli, which is a separate terminal AI tool). For custom agents, MCP integration, and hooks in the terminal, see the Kiro CLI section.

Install Extensions via PowerShell

kiro --install-extension jeanp413.open-remote-wsl
kiro --install-extension amazonwebservices.aws-toolkit-vscode
kiro --install-extension hashicorp.terraform
kiro --install-extension GitHub.vscode-pull-request-github
kiro --install-extension ms-azuretools.vscode-docker

Or via Kiro GUI: Ctrl+Shift+X → install Open Remote - WSL, AWS Toolkit, HashiCorp Terraform, GitHub Pull Requests, Docker → Ctrl+Shift+P → Developer: Reload Window

Extension	ID	Why you need it
Open Remote - WSL	jeanp413.open-remote-wsl	Connect Kiro to WSL and open your workspace on the Linux filesystem
AWS Toolkit	amazonwebservices.aws-toolkit-vscode	AWS resources and profiles in the IDE sidebar
HashiCorp Terraform	hashicorp.terraform	HCL syntax, formatting, and language-server support for .tf files
GitHub Pull Requests	GitHub.vscode-pull-request-github	Browse PRs and issues, sign in to GitHub from the IDE
Docker	ms-azuretools.vscode-docker	View containers and images from the IDE

Installing Open Remote - WSL alone is not enough — continue to the next step to configure argv.json.