kiro-guide

kiro-guide is a skill for Claude Code from xonovex/platform. It costs 84 tokens per session (507 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for configuring Kiro IDE or command-line hooks and actions. Hooks are configured responses to events such as starting a session, submitting a prompt, or using a tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing Kiro hook files, command actions, agent actions, workspace event handlers, or hook tests.
Why use it?
It clarifies which events can block work, how command exit codes behave, where workspace settings apply, and why generated configurations need review and testing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event.

Part of the xonovex-agentic plugin — 11 skills, 16 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating or reviewing Kiro hook files, command actions, agent actions, workspace event handlers, or hook tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xonovex/platform/kiro-guide
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.

Any agent
npx skills add xonovex/platform --skill kiro-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xonovex/platform

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install xonovex-agentic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 16 commands.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 507 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00084 $0.00507
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00203
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00051

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 480249a6e14f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kiro-guide 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 1mo 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.

packages/runtime/plugin/plugin-agentic/skills/kiro-guide/SKILL.md · 36 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 36 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kiro Hooks

Configure Kiro's native hook and action surface without inventing unsupported guarantees or a universal hook file.

Essentials

  • Pin schema and surface - Record v1 hook schema, IDE/CLI surface, documentation snapshot, and observed runtime.
  • Prefer command actions - Use deterministic commands for policy, formatting, validation, and audit.
  • Bound agent actions - Treat Ask Kiro actions as model execution with credits, authority, and output limits.
  • Use exit code 2 precisely - Blocking applies only to documented pre-events.
  • Respect workspace roots - File events and configuration are scoped to the defining workspace root.
  • Review generated hooks - Natural-language generation is a draft requiring diff, security review, tests, and authorization.

Gotchas

  • Command exit code 2 blocks only PreToolUse, UserPromptSubmit, and PreTaskExec in the v1 reference.
  • Other non-zero exits warn and normally continue.
  • Agent actions start another agent loop and consume credits; they are not deterministic commands.
  • Setting timeout 0 disables the command timeout and violates bounded-module defaults.
  • Generated hook configurations must be reviewed before saving or sharing.

Example

A pre-tool protected-path hook uses a v1 workspace JSON file and a bounded command action; its preview includes the matcher, exit-2 denial, command timeout, workspace trust, stdout/stderr exposure, enable flag, test cases, and removal rollback.

Progressive Disclosure

  • Read references/capabilities.md - Load when mapping semantic intents to native events, handlers, guarantees, versions, ordering, context, or limitations
  • Read references/onboarding.md - Load when discovering, previewing, applying, verifying, disabling, rolling back, updating, or detecting drift
  • Read references/patterns.md - Load when translating deterministic hooks, model evaluators, specialist agents, or managed adoption recipes

Read the full file on GitHub · 36 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 36 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 480249a6e14f

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kiro-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository xonovex/platform (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 507 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-08.

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