Amazon Web Services · 23 September 2026

Kiro Workshop — LASD Field Support Bureau

Everything you need today, in one place. Leo Zhadanovsky and John Haghighi.

Start here

Do these two first. The rest can wait until after lunch.

• Attendee setup guide Sign in, install Kiro, the AWS CLI, Claude Code. Every step, in the browser.
• Setup guide — Word version Same content, for printing or reading offline.
• Download Kiro Windows, macOS and Linux builds.

Agenda

210 minutes, 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM. Hard stop at 1:30 PM.

10:00 AM	Open — what today is and is not
10:15 AM	Install Kiro and initialize
10:45 AM	Requirements, design, tasks
11:30 AM	Lunch (30 minutes)
12:00 PM	Steering files, then build and run
12:35 PM	Hooks, MCP servers, subagents
12:55 PM	Claude Code and Claude Desktop on Bedrock
1:25 PM	Where this goes next at FSB

The two labs — this is what we do today

Work through these in order. Everything else on this page is reference.

• 1. Kiro Express  ·  10:15 AM Install, initialize, then build an application from a spec. Code d139-0d58f9-e6
• 2. Claude Code and Claude Desktop on Bedrock  ·  12:55 PM Single sign-on, Bedrock guardrails, usage observability. Code 49f8-07cf86-95

Kiro documentation

• Kiro docs home IDE, CLI, Web and Mobile — one agent across all of them.
• Specs Requirements, design and tasks — the spec-driven workflow.
• Steering files Give the agent your project's standards so you stop repeating them.
• Hooks Run actions automatically when the agent changes files or finishes a task.
• MCP servers Connect Kiro to external tools, APIs and your own systems.
• Privacy and security How Kiro handles your code. Read this before you point it at PETS.

Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock

• Claude Code on Bedrock The setup you will use this afternoon, including model pinning.
• Installing Claude Code Windows, macOS and Linux. No Node.js needed.
• What is Amazon Bedrock The managed service the model runs on.
• Agent Toolkit for AWS Gives your agent current AWS docs and tested skills. One command.

For afterwards

Useful when you take this back to your own work.

• Kiro for teams Single sign-on, governance, usage monitoring, licence management.
• AWS for government Compliance programmes and public-sector guidance.
• CJIS on AWS Criminal Justice Information Services compliance.
• AWS Skill Builder Free self-paced training to keep going after today.

Tell us how it went

Five questions, about a minute. You can answer anonymously, and it shapes the next session.

• Workshop feedback survey Five questions on Amazon Pulse →