{"type":"post","stable_id":"post:kiro-unified-agent-harness","slug":"kiro-unified-agent-harness","title":"Kiro Moves Agent Logic Below The IDE, CLI, Web, And Mobile Surfaces","description":"Kiro places the agent loop, tools, permissions, session handling, and configuration in a shared harness so product surfaces become clients of one engine.","retrieval_nugget":"A shared runtime can ship planning, tool selection, and permission improvements across IDE, CLI, and web. Full portable session packaging across every environment remains a separate problem and should not be implied by a unified engine.","published_at":"2026-08-03","updated_at":"2026-08-06","record_date":"2026-08-03","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["agent-harness","developer-tools","permissions","sessions","multi-surface"],"entities":["Kiro","Kiro CLI","Kiro IDE"],"source_urls":["https://kiro.dev/blog/one-agent","https://kiro.dev/docs/cli/v3/"],"source_format":"article","editorial_timing":{"lane":"regular_hourly","scheduled_at":"2026-08-07T12:00:00+03:00","real_news_delta":"owner-approved primary-source mechanism or merged analysis"},"visual_decision":{"status":"included","reason":"the central mechanism is a flow, loop, architecture, decision, or state transition that benefits from a diagram","reviewed_by":"codex"},"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","status":"published","visuals":[{"role":"hero","src":"/images/drip/kiro-unified-agent-harness/kiro-unified-agent-harness.webp","alt":"A whiteboard hub-and-spoke diagram showing one agent harness with loop, tools, permissions, and sessions serving IDE, CLI, web, and mobile clients.","caption":"New Runtime synthesis from One agent, every surface: how we built the Kiro agent harness."}],"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/kiro-unified-agent-harness/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/kiro-unified-agent-harness.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/kiro-unified-agent-harness.json"}}