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Excellent in Kiro, as one entry in its own config

The installer writes one excellent entry into ~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json, in JSON, under mcpServers, and leaves the rest of the file alone. Restart Kiro afterwards: it only sees the new server after a restart.

curl -fsSL https://excellent.so/install.sh | sh

It runs excellent install-agent-mcps, which writes the entry and prints Kiro CLI: linked.

The entry and the setup prompt

~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"excellent": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "/absolute/path/to/node",
"args": [
"/absolute/path/to/@excellent-so/cli/dist/server.js"
],
"cwd": "/absolute/path/to/@excellent-so/cli/dist",
"env": {}
}
}
}
Setup prompt · paste it into Kiro
Set up Excellent (excellent.so) in Kiro for me. First run: curl -fsSL https://excellent.so/install.sh | sh
If its output has a line starting "Kiro CLI: linked" or "Kiro CLI: already-linked", skip to the last step.
Otherwise open ~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json (create it as {} if it is missing) and add this under the top-level "mcpServers" object, creating that object if needed and keeping everything else in the file unchanged:
"excellent": {"type":"stdio","command":"/absolute/path/to/node","args":["/absolute/path/to/@excellent-so/cli/dist/server.js"],"cwd":"/absolute/path/to/@excellent-so/cli/dist","env":{}}
Replace /absolute/path/to/node with the output of `node -p process.execPath`, and /absolute/path/to/@excellent-so/cli/dist with the output of `echo "$(npm root -g)/@excellent-so/cli/dist"`.
Last step: tell me to restart Kiro, because it only sees the new server after a restart.

It runs the installer and looks for Kiro CLI: linked; if that line is missing it adds the entry by hand, then asks you to restart.

Agent
KiroAWS
Config file
~/.kiro/settings/mcp.jsonmacOS
Linux, Windows
Linux: the same path. Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.kiro\settings\mcp.jsonNot supported yet
Format
JSON, under mcpServersmcpServers, with type: "stdio"
Detected by
the kiro-cli binary or the kiro binary
The installer prints
Kiro CLI: linked
Restart
Restart Kiro afterwards: it only sees the new server after a restart.
Undo
Delete the "excellent" entry under "mcpServers" in ~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json, then restart Kiro.
Source
micro packages/core/src/agent-clis.ts:1078
Kiro docs

The CLI on npm today, 0.1.0 (checked October 23, 2026), predates install-agent-mcps: the installer skips this step, says so, and changes no agent config. Paste the setup prompt, or add the entry by hand as the setup doc shows.

The same entry

Put Excellent in your agent: install it, restart the agent, run one task

curl -fsSL https://excellent.so/install.sh | sh

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