The Kiro Assistant
A personal AI guide for your Kiro system, powered by Claude and grounded in a curated Kiro knowledge base. Ask it anything about installing, configuring or fixing Kiro — no wiki to dig through, no videos to scrub. It takes you straight to the solution.
Runs on your own Claude access — it costs you nothing beyond your own usage.
Why it helps
An assistant that actually knows Kiro
General chatbots guess about your distro. The Kiro Assistant answers from Kiro’s own docs and configs, so it knows the real defaults — the right repo, the right kernel, the right tool.
Grounded, not guessing
Answers come from a curated knowledge base — architecture, install, packages, desktops, kernels, the ArchLinux Tweak Tool and troubleshooting. It knows the real defaults: nemesis_repo, linux-cachyos, MintStick for USB writing.
Straight to the fix
No wiki to dig through, no videos to scrub. Ask a plain question and get a clear, Kiro-specific answer — with the safe command to run, right there in the conversation.
Bring your own key
You run it on your own Claude access, so it costs you nothing beyond your own usage. Nothing to subscribe to, no Kiro account — your conversations stay between you and Claude.
Always current
The knowledge base is regenerated from Kiro’s public source repos, so the assistant tracks what Kiro actually ships — not a stale snapshot from a model’s training cut-off.
Points you to the right video
When a question maps to one of Erik’s tutorials, the assistant links you straight to it — and points you at the YouTube channel when you want to go deeper.
A memory that’s yours to keep
Tell it to remember something and it saves a personal note in ~/.claude/kiro-assistant — one folder that survives reinstalls and carries to a new machine. The shipped knowledge stays read-only underneath.
Get started
Two ways to run it
Either way you bring your own key — it runs on your own Claude access and costs you nothing beyond your own usage. All it needs is the claude-code package, pre-installed on Kiro and a one-line install anywhere else.
On a Kiro system
The kiro-assistant package ships the knowledge pack and a launcher. Open it from your menu, or from a terminal:
kiro-assistantIt opens Claude Code preloaded with the Kiro knowledge base — just start asking.
On any other machine
The pack is public — clone it and open it in Claude Code on any machine. Its instructions load automatically:
git clone https://github.com/kirodubes/kiro-assistant.git
cd kiro-assistant
claudeThen ask, e.g. “How do I write the Kiro ISO to a USB stick?” or “Which kernel does Kiro use by default?”
The assistant has no access to your machine — it hands you commands to read before you run them. It stays in scope: Kiro, its tools, its desktops, and Arch basics.
Get the Kiro Assistant
It ships on Kiro and lives on GitHub for everyone else. Open source, grounded in Kiro’s own docs, and free to use with your own Claude access.