kiro-steering

To keep steering documentation synced with your codebase, this Skill analyzes repository patterns, configuration files, and directory structure to detect drift and propose additive updates. It preserves custom content while ensuring guidance stays aligned with the actual code.

Bootstrapping steering files for a new TypeScript React project involves generating core documents from repository templates and inferred patterns when steering is missing. The Skill loads templates, discovers files using glob and grep, and performs just-in-time codebase analysis to produce initial guidance.

Project memory in software engineering is a persistent steering directory that stores pattern-driven guidance for your codebase. You need it when you want to prevent documentation drift and maintain a concise reference of architectural decisions and structural patterns.

Yes, you can update existing steering documents without losing custom sections. The Skill always prefers additive updates and avoids overwriting user-defined content, instead surfacing warnings and recommended changes for your review.

The best way to detect documentation drift in a repository is to analyze README files, package.json, configuration files, and directory structure for mismatches against existing steering documents. The Skill performs this analysis and reports warnings with proposed additive updates.

Yes, this drift detection works without external dependencies or components. The Skill operates independently, using built-in file discovery methods like glob and grep to analyze your codebase and generate or update steering documents.