Kiro Cannot Get Response from The Second Command in The Same Shell

#kiro #zsh #powerlevel10k

As you may know, when Kiro wants to run shell commands, it opens a new zsh (named "Kiro"), runs the command on that shell, and gets the response to analyze the next step.

Unfortunately, if you're using Kiro, zsh, and powerlevel10k theme in OH-My-Zsh together, you may face this problem like I did.

For the first command sent to the shell, it gets a response successfully. However, for the second command in the same shell, Kiro cannot get the response from the shell command and ends up waiting for a response indefinitely.

This problem is so annoying and made me fed up with Kiro.

Recently, I discovered it's due to the incompatibility between powerlevel10k theme and Kiro. So, I found a way to mitigate this problem, which allows me to give Kiro another shot.

We know that:

If zsh is opened by Kiro, the environment variable TERM_PROGRAM equals "kiro"
There are 2 personas in Kiro that can open new shells:
- "Us" as users can use powerlevel10k theme
- "Kiro" as an IDE can't use powerlevel10k theme

The Mitigation:

Key Concept: We will not use powerlevel10k theme if the zsh is opened by Kiro

In Kiro, add environment variable ENABLE_ZSH_THEME=1 in zsh configuration
- Edit Kiro settings
- Change this value (terminal.integrated.profiles.osx)
- Add environment variable At this stage, zsh opened by you will have environment variable ENABLE_ZSH_THEME=1, while zsh opened by Kiro will not have ENABLE_ZSH_THEME=1
Configure ~/.zshrc to match the configuration above
- Add a condition to load powerlevel10k theme
Test by opening zsh yourself and letting Kiro open it to see the result