ARA (pronounced: ah-rah) is a package registry and distribution system for AI development artifacts. It provides a standardized way to discover, share, and install reusable components that enhance AI assistants and development workflows.
ARA supports various types of packages:
- Kiro Custom Agents (
kiro-agent): Kiro custom agent configurations with prompts, tools, and behaviors - MCP Servers (
mcp-server): Model Context Protocol servers that extend AI capabilities - Context (
context): Knowledge files, prompt templates, and reference materials - Skills (
skill): Procedural knowledge via SKILL.md that agents load dynamically - Kiro Powers (
kiro-powers): Bundle for MCP tools, steering files and hooks that give agents specialized knowledge - Kiro Steering (
kiro-steering): Kiro persistent knowledge about your projects - AGENTS.md (
agents-md): An open format for guiding coding agents
- Vision - Understand the project goals and tenets
- ara.json Spec - Package manifest format
- JSON Schema - Validate your ara.json
- Registry API - HTTP API specification for registry implementations
- Security - Security guidance for implementers
{
"$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ara-registry/spec/refs/heads/main/ara.schema.json",
"name": "acme/code-reviewer",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "AI agent for automated code review",
"author": "[email protected]",
"tags": ["code-review", "automation"],
"type": "kiro-agent"
}See CONTRIBUTING for more information.
This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.