"Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced three new AI agents it calls "Frontier agents, including one designed to learn how you like to work and then operate on its own for days. Each of these agents handle different tasks such as writing code, security processes like code reviews, and automating DevOps tasks such as preventing incidents when pushing new code live. Preview versions of the agents are available now."
"Perhaps the biggest and most interesting claim by AWS is its promise that the Frontier agent called "Kiro autonomous agent" can work on its own for days at a time. Kiro is a software coding agent based on AWS's existing AI coding tool Kiro, which was announced in July. While that existing tool could be used for vibe coding (which is really just prototyping), it was intended to produce operational code, or software that would be pushed live."
"To make reliable code, the AI must follow a company's software-coding specifications. Kiro does that through a concept called "spec-driven development." As Kiro codes, it has the human instruct, confirm, or correct its assumptions, thereby creating specifications. The Kiro autonomous agent watches how the team works in various tools, by scanning existing code, among other training means. And then, AWS says, it can work independently."
Three Frontier agents target coding, security code reviews, and DevOps automation. One agent, Kiro autonomous agent, is based on AWS's Kiro coding tool and focuses on producing operational, production-ready code using spec-driven development. Kiro learns by watching team workflows, scanning existing code, and having humans instruct, confirm, or correct its assumptions, thereby creating specifications. Kiro maintains persistent context across sessions and can work independently for hours or days on assigned backlog tasks. Preview versions of the Frontier agents are available now. The agents aim to automate complex tasks like preventing incidents during code pushes.
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