@arvoretech/pi-kiro-provider

A pi provider extension that connects pi to the Kiro API (AWS CodeWhisperer/Q), exposing kiro-cli-verified models through one provider surface.

Why this exists

Kiro gives you a strong free model menu, but pi needs a provider that speaks Kiro's auth, model catalog, and streaming protocol cleanly. @arvoretech/pi-kiro-provider handles that bridge, including:

• AWS Builder ID, IAM Identity Center, Google, and GitHub login flows
• shared credentials from an existing kiro-cli session when available
• reasoning-aware streaming
• region-aware model filtering so pi only shows models your Kiro region can actually use

Quick start

Add to .pi/settings.json:

{
  "packages": ["npm:@arvoretech/pi-kiro-provider"]
}

Or reference the local dist path for project-local development:

{
  "extensions": ["./arvore-pi-extensions/packages/kiro-provider/dist/index.js"]
}

Then log in from pi:

/login kiro

The login flow supports:

• AWS Builder ID — native device-code flow, works well over SSH/remotes
• Your organization — IAM Identity Center start URL
• Google — social login via kiro-cli
• GitHub — social login via kiro-cli

If you already use kiro-cli, the provider can reuse those credentials instead of forcing a second login.

Models

Family	Models	Context	Reasoning
Claude Opus	claude-opus-4-7, claude-opus-4-6	1M	✓
Claude Sonnet 5	claude-sonnet-5	1M	✓
Claude Sonnet 4.6	claude-sonnet-4-6	1M	✓
Claude Sonnet 4.5	claude-sonnet-4-5	200K	✓
Claude Sonnet 4	claude-sonnet-4	200K	✓
Claude Haiku 4.5	claude-haiku-4-5	200K	✗
Claude Fable 5	claude-fable-5	1M	✓
DeepSeek 3.2	deepseek-3-2	164K	✓
MiniMax	minimax-m2-1, minimax-m2-5	196K	✗
GLM 5	glm-5	200K	✓
GPT-5.6	gpt-5-6-luna, gpt-5-6-terra, gpt-5-6-sol	372K	✓
Qwen3 Coder	qwen3-coder-next	256K	✓
Auto	auto	1M	✓

All listed models are free to use through Kiro.

Usage

Once logged in, select any Kiro model in pi:

/model claude-sonnet-4-6

Or let Kiro pick automatically:

/model auto

Reasoning follows pi's selected thinking level. GPT-5.6 supports off, minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh, and max; minimal maps to the model's low effort, matching pi's native OpenAI Codex provider. When reasoning is off, the provider does not inject Kiro thinking instructions.

Retry Behavior

Generic transient retries such as HTTP 429 and 5xx are handled by pi-coding-agent at the session layer.

This provider only keeps local recovery for Kiro-specific cases:

• 403 auth races, where it can refresh credentials from kiro-cli
• first-token / stalled-stream recovery
• empty-stream retries
• non-retryable Kiro body markers like MONTHLY_REQUEST_COUNT and INSUFFICIENT_MODEL_CAPACITY

Development

pnpm build       # Compile TypeScript
pnpm check       # Type check (no emit)
pnpm test        # Run the Vitest suite
pnpm test:watch  # Watch mode

Architecture

The extension is organized as one feature per file:

src/
├── index.ts            # Extension registration
├── models.ts           # 12 model definitions + ID resolution
├── oauth.ts            # Multi-provider auth (Builder ID / Google / GitHub)
├── kiro-cli.ts         # kiro-cli credential sharing
├── transform.ts        # Message format conversion
├── history.ts          # Conversation history management
├── thinking-parser.ts  # Streaming <thinking> tag parser
├── event-parser.ts     # Kiro stream event parser
└── stream.ts           # Main streaming orchestrator

See src/ — each file owns one feature (extension registration, model catalog, OAuth, kiro-cli credential sharing, message transform, history management, thinking-tag parsing, event parsing, and the streaming orchestrator).

License

MIT