kiro-up: Auto-update Kiro IDE on Linux with rollback support

Piero Azambuja — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:26:28 +0000

The problem

Kiro IDE on Linux (installed via .deb) has no built-in auto-update mechanism. Every time a new version is released, you need to:

Open the browser
Go to kiro.dev/downloads
Download the .deb
Run sudo dpkg -i ...

Coming from IntelliJ — which updates itself with a click — this felt like too much friction.

The solution

I wrote kiro-up, a small shell script that:

Checks the latest version via Kiro's metadata endpoint
Compares it with your installed version
Downloads and installs the new .deb if there's an update
Saves the previous version number so you can rollback if something breaks

Installation


bash
curl -fsSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/pieronatan/9807eaa70bdb869ad509e7980b37fe2e/raw/kiro-up.sh -o ~/.local/bin/kiro-up \
  && chmod +x ~/.local/bin/kiro-up \
  && SHELL_RC="${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshrc"; [ -f "$SHELL_RC" ] || SHELL_RC="$HOME/.bashrc" \
  && grep -q 'alias kiro-up' "$SHELL_RC" 2>/dev/null || echo "alias kiro-up='~/.local/bin/kiro-up'" >> "$SHELL_RC" \
  && echo "Done! Run 'source $SHELL_RC' or open a new terminal, then use: kiro-up"

DEV Community: Piero Azambuja

kiro-up: Auto-update Kiro IDE on Linux with rollback support

The problem

The solution

Installation