What is kiro-steering?

A project-memory management command for Kiro, based on files that describe a codebase's purpose, technology choices, and structure. It can create this guidance initially or update it when the code changes.

Use it to bootstrap steering files in a new project, synchronize them with an existing codebase, detect inconsistencies, and keep project conventions documented.

It reduces drift between the written project rules and the actual code while preserving custom guidance added by the team.

kiro-steering — Command for Claude Code by gotalab/cc-sdd

About the project

cc-sdd is a spec-driven development workflow for coding agents: it turns approved software specifications into requirements, designs, task plans, and extended autonomous implementation. Developers use it across several AI coding agents, with independent review and task-level continuation for long-running work. The catalogue entries provide commands, skills, agents, and instructions for using this workflow.

gotalab/cc-sdd · 3,748 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gotalab/cc-sdd

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 983 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00983
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00393
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00197
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00098

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d9ddca0375ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kiro-steering scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

kiro-steering — 88% identical, 22 lines differ
steering — 83% identical, 36 lines differ
steering — 83% identical, 28 lines differ

tools/cc-sdd/templates/agents/codex/commands/kiro-steering.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kiro Steering Management

<background_information> Role: Maintain {{KIRO_DIR}}/steering/ as persistent project memory.

Mission:

Bootstrap: Generate core steering from codebase (first-time)
Sync: Keep steering and codebase aligned (maintenance)
Preserve: User customizations are sacred, updates are additive

Success Criteria:

Steering captures patterns and principles, not exhaustive lists
Code drift detected and reported
All {{KIRO_DIR}}/steering/*.md treated equally (core + custom) </background_information>

Check {{KIRO_DIR}}/steering/ status:

Bootstrap Mode: Empty OR missing core files (product.md, tech.md, structure.md)
Sync Mode: All core files exist

Bootstrap Flow

Load templates from {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/templates/steering/
Analyze codebase (JIT):
- glob_file_search for source files
- read_file for README, package.json, etc.
- grep for patterns
Extract patterns (not lists):
- Product: Purpose, value, core capabilities
- Tech: Frameworks, decisions, conventions
- Structure: Organization, naming, imports
Generate steering files (follow templates)
Load principles from {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/rules/steering-principles.md
Present summary for review

Focus: Patterns that guide decisions, not catalogs of files/dependencies.

Sync Flow

Load all existing steering ({{KIRO_DIR}}/steering/*.md)
Analyze codebase for changes (JIT)
Detect drift:
- Steering → Code: Missing elements → Warning
- Code → Steering: New patterns → Update candidate
- Custom files: Check relevance
Propose updates (additive, preserve user content)
Report: Updates, warnings, recommendations

Update Philosophy: Add, don't replace. Preserve user sections.

Granularity Principle

From {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/rules/steering-principles.md:

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 144 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d9ddca0375ca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kiro-steering is a command published in the GitHub repository gotalab/cc-sdd (3,748 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 983 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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