Kiro-style Spec-Driven Development on an agentic SDLC
Project memory keeps persistent guidance (steering, specs notes, component docs) so OpenCode honors your standards each run. Treat it as the long-lived source of truth for patterns, conventions, and decisions.
- Use
.kiro/steering/for project-wide policies: architecture principles, naming schemes, security constraints, tech stack decisions, api standards, etc. - Use local
AGENTS.mdfiles for feature or library context (e.g.src/lib/payments/AGENTS.md): describe domain assumptions, API contracts, or testing conventions specific to that folder. OpenCode auto-loads these when working in the matching path. - Specs notes stay with each spec (under
.kiro/specs/) to guide specification-level workflows.
- Steering:
.kiro/steering/ - Specs:
.kiro/specs/
Steering (.kiro/steering/) - Guide AI with project-wide rules and context
Specs (.kiro/specs/) - Formalize development process for individual features
- Check
.kiro/specs/for active specifications - Use
/kiro-spec-status [feature-name]to check progress
- Think in English, generate responses in Russian. All Markdown content written to project files (e.g., requirements.md, design.md, tasks.md, research.md, validation reports) MUST be written in the target language configured for this specification (see spec.json.language).
- Phase 0 (optional):
/kiro-steering,/kiro-steering-custom - Discovery:
/kiro-discovery "idea"— determines action path, writes brief.md + roadmap.md for multi-spec projects - Phase 1 (Specification):
- Single spec:
/kiro-spec-quick {feature} [--auto]or step by step:/kiro-spec-init "description"/kiro-spec-requirements {feature}/kiro-validate-gap {feature}(optional: for existing codebase)/kiro-spec-design {feature} [-y]/kiro-validate-design {feature}(optional: design review)/kiro-spec-tasks {feature} [-y]
- Multi-spec:
/kiro-spec-batch— creates all specs from roadmap.md in parallel by dependency wave
- Single spec:
- Phase 2 (Implementation):
/kiro-impl {feature} [tasks]- Without task numbers: autonomous mode (subagent per task + independent review + final validation)
- With task numbers: manual mode (selected tasks in main context, still reviewer-gated before completion)
/kiro-validate-impl {feature}(standalone re-validation)
- Progress check:
/kiro-spec-status {feature}(use anytime)
Skills are located in .opencode/skills/kiro-*/SKILL.md
- Each skill is a directory with a
SKILL.mdfile - Use
/skillsto inspect currently available skills - Invoke a skill directly with
/kiro-<skill-name> - If there is even a 1% chance a skill applies to the current task, invoke it. Do not skip skills because the task seems simple.
kiro-review— task-local adversarial review protocol used by reviewer subagentskiro-debug— root-cause-first debug protocol used by debugger subagentskiro-verify-completion— fresh-evidence gate before success or completion claims
- 3-phase approval workflow: Requirements → Design → Tasks → Implementation
- Human review required each phase; use
-yonly for intentional fast-track - Keep steering current and verify alignment with
/kiro-spec-status - Follow the user's instructions precisely, and within that scope act autonomously: gather the necessary context and complete the requested work end-to-end in this run, asking questions only when essential information is missing or the instructions are critically ambiguous.
- Load entire
.kiro/steering/as project memory - Default files:
product.md,tech.md,structure.md - Custom files are supported (managed via
/kiro-steering-custom)