Kiro showcase: Automating Changes Across Several Repos with Spec-Driven Development and Custom Sub-Agents

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  1. github-mcp-server

    GitHub's official MCP Server

    Rather than manually searching through repositories, I used Kiro with the GitHub MCP server to:

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  3. ralph-loop-kiro-specs

    A Ralph loop for Kiro specs driven development

    After several iterations where I emphasized the need for orchestration, progress tracking, error correction, and race condition avoidance - basically where I tried to achieve the so-called "Ralph Wiggum Loop" (see Ralph Wiggum Pattern by G. Huntley and Massimo Ferre's Kiro implementation) - we arrived at an agent-based architecture:

  4. jq

    Command-line JSON processor

    The agents coordinate through migration-status.json using atomic file updates with jq, save the progress to that file and to a more detailed corrections.md where all errors and different attempts are documented, to retry without going through the same mistakes but instead trying different approaches.

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