AWS Kiro adds long-running bots to its Kiro Crew agent workspace

Amazon's AI coding environment now lets developers spin up named, persistent agents with their own memory and sessions Amazon Web Services has added long-running, customizable bots to Kiro Crew, the multi-agent workspace inside its AI-focused development environment, Kiro. The bots run with their own separate memories and sessions. What AWS actually shipped Kiro bots reached general availability on November 5, 2026. They live inside Kiro Crew, which AWS positions as a workspace for coordinating several AI agents at once. Each bot can be given its own name and avatar. Developers build these agents through a Customize section in Kiro. They can start from default configurations or assemble a custom setup of their own. The intended jobs are the repetitive, ongoing chores of software teams. Issue triage and build monitoring are the examples cited for the launch. The technical hook is persistence. Each bot keeps its own memory, so it does not start from scratch every time a developer opens a new session. Bots can also run parallel worker agents underneath them. Task scheduling is part of the package too. A bot can be set to do something on a timetable rather than waiting for a human to p...