SDD Observatory

Spirit of Kiro

A game built with and powered by generative AI by the Kiro team — Kiro's own public showcase project.

Reviewed 3 months ago · Jul 18, 2026

GitHub · kirodotdev/spirit-of-kiro using Kiro

Stars
944
Contributors
6
Open issues
13
Age
1.5 years
Last push
3 months ago
Latest release
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Metrics updated Oct 16, 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 Whatever spec-driven process produced the game, its artifacts are no longer maintained alongside the code.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

  1. Code development continues

    Latest code commit, with .kiro/ untouched for over a year.

  2. Last .kiro/ change

    "Adding the right steering files to main" — the last time spec artifacts were touched.

  3. Kiro artifacts introduced

    First commit touching the .kiro/ directory.

Metrics updated Oct 16, 2026 · Assessment last reviewed Jul 18, 2026 · Added Jul 18, 2026 · How we track