Spirit of Kiro · SDD Observatory

Stars: 933
Contributors: 6
Open issues: 13
Age: 1.2 years
Last push: 2 days ago
Latest release: —

Commits per week, last 12 months · 4 total

Metrics updated Jul 18, 2026 · collected automatically from the GitHub API

Spec structure

Location: .kiro/
Formats: Markdown
Notes: Currently contains only steering/ (steering files); no specs/ directory remains on the default branch. Kiro's spec dogfooding is better observed in kirodotdev/Kiro, whose .kiro/specs/github-issue-automation/ holds requirements.md, design.md, and tasks.md.

Assessment drift: high

Spec-to-code drift

High. The .kiro/ directory hasn’t changed since July 2025 while code development continued through July 2026, and only steering files — not specs — remain in-tree. Whatever spec-driven process produced the game, its artifacts are no longer maintained alongside the code.

Defects and rework

Not yet assessed.

Maintenance outcomes

A cautionary data point from a vendor’s own showcase: even a first-party demo can end up with abandoned spec artifacts once the launch push is over. It also illustrates a measurement gap this observatory has to live with — for closed-source tooling, in-tree artifacts are the only observable trace of the process, and they may not reflect how the team actually works day to day.

Timeline

Jul 15, 2026
Code development continues
Latest code commit, with .kiro/ untouched for over a year.
Jul 2, 2025
Last .kiro/ change
"Adding the right steering files to main" — the last time spec artifacts were touched.
May 9, 2025
Kiro artifacts introduced
First commit touching the .kiro/ directory.

Metrics updated Jul 18, 2026 · Assessment last reviewed Jul 18, 2026 · Added Jul 18, 2026 · How we track