kiro-steering

kiro-steering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gotalab/cc-sdd. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,080 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for maintaining a steering folder that stores persistent project knowledge for Kiro. They describe how to create or update files about the product, technology, and project structure while preserving user-written guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to bootstrap steering files for a new project or synchronize existing steering documentation with changes in the codebase.
Why use it?
They keep project advice aligned with the codebase over time. They also help detect when the documented patterns and the actual project have drifted apart.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use them to bootstrap steering files for a new project or synchronize existing steering documentation with changes in the codebase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gotalab/cc-sdd/kiro-steering
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 · 3,659 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gotalab/cc-sdd --skill kiro-steering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gotalab/cc-sdd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,080 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00019 $0.01080
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00540
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00108

Measured 10d ago against content hash 41aa31471f34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 10d 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.

tools/cc-sdd/templates/agents/antigravity-skills/skills/kiro-steering/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 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

  1. Load templates from {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/templates/steering/
  2. Analyze codebase (JIT):
Parallel Research

The following research areas are independent and can be executed in parallel:

  1. Product analysis: README, package.json, documentation files for purpose, value, core capabilities
  2. Tech analysis: Config files, dependencies, frameworks for technology patterns and decisions
  3. Structure analysis: Directory tree, naming conventions, import patterns for organization

If multi-agent is enabled, spawn sub-agents for each area above. Otherwise execute sequentially.

After all parallel research completes, synthesize patterns for steering files.

  1. Extract patterns (not lists):
    • Product: Purpose, value, core capabilities
    • Tech: Frameworks, decisions, conventions
    • Structure: Organization, naming, imports
  2. Generate steering files (follow templates)
  3. Load principles from rules/steering-principles.md from this skill's directory
  4. Present summary for review

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


Sync Flow

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

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 157 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 41aa31471f34

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kiro-steering is a skill published in the GitHub repository gotalab/cc-sdd (3,659 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,080 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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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