Kiro IDE: Workflow Feedback, Power Search, and Flexible Hook Matching

[Improvements] More flexible Hook matchers: Match groups of tools in PreToolUse and PostToolUse Hooks with categories and selectors (`shell`, `read`, `write`, `@builtin`, `@mcp`, `@server`, `@server/tool`) instead of listing each tool ID. Learn more ->

This release adds a feedback link for Workflows, fixes several chat, terminal, and source control issues, and improves workflow reliability, spec-only commands, and Hook matching.

[Improvements] Spec-only slash commands: `/quick-spec`, `/architecture-selection`, and `/bug-fix` now appear only in spec sessions, so they no longer clutter the command list in other sessions. Learn more ->

[Improvements] Share feedback on Workflows: Open a short feedback survey from the chat Workflows drawer in the desktop app. The survey is unavailable in GovCloud, AWS isolated Regions, and China Regions

[Improvements] Search Available Powers: Find a Power faster by filtering cards by name in the Available Powers view. Learn more ->

[Improvements] Effort kept from session start: Set Effort and Thinking before your first message, and Kiro keeps that choice instead of resetting it once the session starts. Learn more ->

[Improvements] Faster workflow list: The Workflows list loads faster when you have many runs

[Fixes] Fixed memory use growing over the course of a long chat session, which could crash the agent

[Fixes] Fixed the terminal showing a blank panel with a blinking cursor on Windows when a shell failed to start; Kiro now shows the launch failure and its exit code

[Fixes] Fixed Generate Commit Message using the wrong repository in a multi-repository workspace; it now uses the repository you clicked, and the Command Palette asks which repository to use when more than one is open

[Fixes] Fixed Workflows being guided toward a fixed branch; Kiro now tells each run to use the branch checked out when it starts. Learn more ->

[Fixes] Fixed files with non-UTF-8 encodings (including UTF-16 and code-page files) appearing garbled when read; Kiro now decodes files using their detected encoding

[Fixes] Fixed Kiro always telling the model that an unanswered tool call was "aborted by the user"; it now says whether the tool never ran, returned a result, or has an unknown outcome

[Fixes] Fixed answering a tool approval, Hook prompt, or safety prompt in one window not clearing it in other open windows or in the Agent Focus Needs you panel, which could leave a session stuck on waiting on you

[Fixes] Fixed `web_fetch` dropping query strings and fragments from URLs; it also now upgrades HTTP to HTTPS and removes embedded credentials. Learn more ->

[Fixes] Fixed a canceled stdio MCP server connection sometimes leaving its process running or starting it later anyway

[Fixes] Fixed Escape not closing Find in Chat after clicking a match or clicking into the chat input

[Fixes] Fixed View changes and per-file View diff not finding a session's changes after a workspace folder was added or removed mid-session

[Fixes] Fixed command output sent to Kiro sometimes including the next shell prompt, and a command that never started returning the previous command's output

[Fixes] Fixed the working indicator disappearing for a running response when the same session was open in a second window or in Agent Focus

[Fixes] Fixed a chat sometimes loading skills or steering from another open chat's workspace folders instead of only its own

[Fixes] Fixed steering slash commands only working at the start of a prompt; they now work anywhere in the message, as long as they're preceded by whitespace

[Fixes] Fixed pressing Stop while a prompt was still starting (for example, while an MCP server was starting) not stopping the prompt until it reached the model

[Fixes] Fixed a session that ended cleanly sometimes reloading as still in progress

[Fixes] Fixed a message sent just as a turn ended sometimes reaching the model without that turn, which could leave Kiro unaware that a Workflow run had finished

[Fixes] Fixed Always allow for this session on a workflow step's permission card not sticking, so it kept asking again until the step's call limit was reached

[Fixes] Fixed a workflow step with an empty model response completing with no work done; it now retries automatically before pausing the run

[Fixes] Fixed output from UserPromptSubmit and client-hosted command Hooks being dropped from the model's context after a session reload

[Fixes] Fixed an edit made right after adding a `#[[file:...]]` reference in a steering document being missed until the next scan