feat: ship a Kiro power that drives this accelerator

[omrsamer]

What this adds

A Kiro power at kiro/agentcore-enterprise-platform/ that lets Kiro drive this
accelerator: pick a profile from a described situation, deploy and verify a module at a
time, diagnose what failed, audit what it costs, and tear it down cleanly.

POWER.md routes. Fourteen steering/*.md files hold the detail and load on demand, so
nothing beyond the router enters context until it is needed.

Six of the steering files are runbooks — deploy the platform, deploy one module,
verify, recover a failed deploy, audit cost, tear down. They are ordered procedures with a
verify gate after each step and explicit halt conditions. Everything that creates,
changes, deletes or bills is proposed one command at a time, with its cost stated, and
waits for approval. Read-only checks are grouped, because teaching someone to click
through five prompts without reading is worse than not prompting.

The content is the operational knowledge this repository does not currently write down:
what each module deploys versus what its title suggests, which command proves a layer works
rather than that its stack reached CREATE_COMPLETE, why module 6 goes silent for seven
minutes, which flags are sharp, and which security controls are enforced rather than merely
declared.

README.md gets a ## Drive It with Kiro section and a pointer from the five-step path.

Why it ships in this repository rather than in one of its own

A hallucinated --flag reads exactly like a real one and only fails in front of a user.
Worse, a renamed flag is indistinguishable from a hallucinated one a month later. Prose
about a CLI rots silently, and the failure lands on whoever is mid-session.

So scripts/check-kiro-power.sh (new, ~558 lines, stdlib Python + bash, no AWS calls and
no network) makes drift a build failure:

• Resolves every file:line citation in the power against this tree and bounds-checks the
  line range — 66 of them.
• Checks every restated profile module sequence against PROFILE_MODULES in
  scripts/deploy.sh — 25 sequences across 5 profiles.
• Checks every cited --flag against the action it is used with — 133 of them.
• Verifies every cross-file steering/x.md#anchor link resolves — 57.
• Parses all 211 bash blocks for syntax.
• Asserts installability: Kiro's power validator rejects a directory containing
  anything outside POWER.md, mcp.json and steering/*.md — including a hidden file at
  any depth — with an error that does not name the offending file. The gate ports that
  allowlist rather than trusting it, so a stray .DS_Store fails CI here instead of
  failing install for a user.

It runs in the existing shell-checks job, which is already this repo's no-AWS
self-checks job and already sets up Python 3.13. One added step.

The installer allowlist is also why the six runbooks are steering/runbook-*.md rather
than skills/<name>/SKILL.md: skills/ is not on the allowlist, so on an installed power
every runbook read would fail.

The power lives at kiro/, not .kiro/, because .gitignore deliberately excludes
.kiro/ ("Kiro session steering (local-only, must never ship)"). That looked like a
maintainer decision worth respecting rather than overriding with a negation.

The gate's value, and its limit

The power was written against bbc1a0b and then rebased onto 750e283. The gate passed
clean on the new tree — and six claims were still wrong, because they were semantic
rather than textual. Worth stating plainly, since it bounds what CI here can promise:

• --profile no longer "exports feature flags"; it materializes presets/<p>.yaml as
  platform.yaml. The scope trap survives (still cdk deploy --all) but the durability
  problem it used to imply is fixed.
• ls --profile <p> was documented as a free read-only way to measure the blast radius.
  The argv pre-scan runs on every action but config and is suppressed only by
  --dry-run, so it now rewrites platform.yaml. The power points at
  expected_stacks() instead.
• The parser fails closed. --dryrun, --modul 6, --stack=identity,
  --team platfrom and --profile greenfeld all exit 1 now. Four documented traps were
  fixed upstream and are removed from the power. What survives is deploy --dry-run,
  accepted and ignored, so that one is promoted to the headline.
• confirm_footprint prints cdk ls and blocks before --all, so the scope trap is
  interactive-visible and silent only under --yes / NON_INTERACTIVE=1.
• Bare deploy --team viability is manifest-dependent now: a2a defaults false in the
  schema, so --team agent fails under greenfield, migration and security-focused.
  The old table claimed it always worked; there is now a per-manifest matrix computed from
  expected_stacks().
• 3LO providers need a *_client_secret_name; plaintext keys are rejected and a client id
  without a secret name fails at synth.

Also added, because a user will ask and the power was silent: the use-cases/ extension
point and its four guardrails, --yes, and the post-destroy sweep — including that
NON_INTERACTIVE=1 without --yes reports leftovers and leaves them, which can exit 0
with a NAT gateway still billing.

On posture

The power is blunt about this repository on purpose, in the same terms as
docs/SECURITY_CONTROLS.md: security controls are opt-in and default off; a -security
stack at CREATE_COMPLETE means the resources exist, not that anything is enforced;
enable_networking=true is not an air-gapped VPC; Cedar ships in LOG_ONLY with an
unconstrained permit. A facilitator who overstates the posture loses the room in the first
security question, so the power says so first.

Verification

• bash scripts/check-kiro-power.sh — all checks passed. 16 power files, 19 scanned; 66
  citations resolve with line ranges in bounds; 25 profile sequences match
  PROFILE_MODULES; 133 flags valid for their action; 57 anchors resolve; 211 bash blocks
  parse.
• The gate is negative-tested at 8/8 planted defects (bad line number, renamed flag,
  wrong profile sequence, dead anchor, broken bash, disallowed file, hidden file, path that
  no longer exists).
• shellcheck --severity=warning over git ls-files '*.sh' (5 files): clean on 0.11.0.
• bash scripts/check-deploy-config.sh, check-workshop-flow.sh, check-contract.sh: all
  pass.
• The behaviour behind the six corrections above was verified by running it, not by
  reading: materialization on ls --profile, the --dry-run suppression, the hand-edited
  manifest refusal and its --yes override, and all five fail-closed parser paths.
• The footprint table was recomputed from expected_stacks() across all five presets.
  greenfield = 6 and platform-team = 10 match what the power already claimed from an
  earlier measurement; the three missing rows are now filled in.
• The content behind it comes from real deploys in a test account (greenfield walk, memory,
  A2A, module C networking + check_network.py, module E, a langgraph-agent swap, a full
  destroy), plus deliberate failure injection. Timings in the power are measured, not
  estimated — including the destroy that exited non-zero after 11.6 minutes having deleted
  4 of 10 stacks with the NAT still available, which is why the teardown runbook checks
  the exit code and then checks the NAT anyway.
• No account IDs, ARNs, or customer-identifying values in the diff; run logs stayed local.

Second commit: .github/labeler.yml

The label job fails on this PR. It is not caused by this PR, and it cannot be fixed by
one: .github/labeler.yml has never existed on main, so actions/labeler@v7 404s
fetching its own config. 15 of the last 15 label runs failed, across 10 branches —
including feat/verify-command (#40, merged red) and a dependabot branch.

actions/labeler resolves its config with ref: github.context.sha
(src/api/get-content.ts),
which under pull_request_target is the base branch commit — and the workflow has no
checkout step, so the log reads "not found locally, fetching via the api". The second
commit here adds that file.

It will not turn this PR's own label job green, and the run on this head confirms it:
the error is byte-identical to the run before the commit existed. The config is read from
the base, so it only takes effect for pull requests opened after this merges. I have left
the red X rather than pretend otherwise.

Because CI 404s before it parses, this repository's CI cannot exercise the config until
it is on main. Verified locally instead: YAML parses; every key checked against the
accepted set in src/changedFiles.ts at the pinned v7 SHA; every glob confirmed to match
at least one of the 195 tracked files; one pattern that matched nothing
(**/package-lock.json — no lockfile here) dropped rather than left as dead config. Labels
are limited to the four that already exist (documentation, python, github_actions,
dependencies), because actions/labeler creates missing labels implicitly with an
arbitrary colour, which would be an effect outside the file.

This is a second scoped task in one merge request, which CONTRIBUTING.md asks me not to
do. Splitting it out is a one-command change if you would rather review it separately — say
so and I will.

One recommendation, not part of this PR

This content also exists as a standalone power repository, which means two copies of the
same ~40k words. Vendoring here is the right call for the reason above — CI can only verify
the copy that sits next to the source — but the better long-term shape is for this
repository to be the authoring home and the standalone repo to be generated from
kiro/agentcore-enterprise-platform/. Happy to wire that up if you'd like it; it needs a
decision from you about where the power is published from, so it is deliberately not in
this diff.

Two further things I noticed and left alone. The labeler config above is the only place I
stepped outside the "one merge request addresses one scoped task" rule, for the reason given
there; these two I did not:

• README.md shows a bare python scripts/check_network.py, which fails outside an
  activated venv where every other documented invocation uses .venv/bin/python.
• There is no 7th runbook for the multi-team --team split, which a facilitator running
  three parallel teams would want.

Both are separate PRs if wanted.

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Commit: 3feafb0 | Updated: 2026-08-25 13:40:56 UTC

Security Scan Results

Scanner	S	C	H	M	L	I	Time	Action	Result	Thresh
bandit	0	0	0	0	0	0	765ms	0	PASSED	MED (g)
cdk-nag	0	0	0	0	0	0	8.2s	0	PASSED	MED (g)
cfn-nag	0	0	0	0	0	0	15ms	0	PASSED	MED (g)
checkov	0	0	0	0	0	0	5.5s	0	PASSED	MED (g)
detect-secrets	0	0	0	0	0	0	645ms	0	PASSED	MED (g)
grype	0	0	0	0	0	0	1m 1s	0	PASSED	MED (g)
npm-audit	0	0	0	0	0	0	192ms	0	PASSED	MED (g)
opengrep	0	2	0	0	0	0	17.4s	2	FAILED	MED (g)
semgrep	0	0	0	0	0	0	<1ms	0	MISSING	MED (g)
syft	0	0	0	0	0	0	3.1s	0	PASSED	MED (g)

[omrsamer]

CI caught real drift, which is the outcome the gate exists for — so worth writing down rather than just fixing.

shell-checks failed on:

FAIL  scripts/test.py does not exist in this repo
      (cited at kiro/agentcore-enterprise-platform/steering/patterns.md:49)

#40 (feat/verify-command) merged 28 minutes after the base I branched from, retiring scripts/test.py in favour of scripts/verify.py and a deploy.sh verify action. GitHub tested the merge, so the gate compared the power against a tree it had never seen. Rebased onto b5e72f3 and fixed:

• verify.md's test.py section is now a verify.py section — the footprint→check mapping table, that any failed check exits 1, and two limits worth stating: it verifies what the configuration promises rather than what the account contains (a manifest with networking off will not run check_network.py against a deployed VPC), and it has no check for -auth, -identity, -security or uc-* stacks, so it is not the answer to "are the controls working."
• The old analysis is kept as history, not deleted. The power documented test.py's inability to fail in some detail, including the red ✗ AccessDeniedException … Authorization method mismatch on step 2 of a healthy platform. That is now a diagnostic: someone reporting it is on a pre-verify.py checkout, and the answer is git pull.
• Twelve other test.py references across six files updated. runbook-verify-platform.md now runs deploy.sh verify as Step 1 and keeps the matrix for the rows verify does not cover and for isolating a failure.
• deploy.md gains a verify row, plus the note that the script's one-line Usage: string omits verify while the Actions: block below it documents it (scripts/deploy.sh:1177) — so --help should not be read as evidence the action does not exist.

On the gate itself: naming a retired path is a legitimate thing for this content to do, and it will recur. Rewording around the check would have been the wrong fix — that is a test driving the content instead of checking it. So it is now a declared category: RETIRED maps the path to why it went, and the check asserts the path is still absent, so a resurrected scripts/test.py fails instead of sitting silently in an allowlist. Negative-tested both directions.

Re-verified on b5e72f3: check-kiro-power.sh green (71 citations, 25 profile sequences, 134 flags, 57 anchors, 214 bash blocks), shellcheck --severity=warning clean over 6 files, and check-deploy-config.sh / check-workshop-flow.sh / check-contract.sh all pass.

Unrelated, and pre-existing on main: the label job fails on every PR in this repo, including #40 and #39, because .github/labeler.yml does not exist — actions/labeler@v7 needs it. Not touched here, since it is outside this PR's scope, but it is a one-file fix if you want it as a separate change.