Kiro IDE on Windows: WSL2 Support via Open Remote Extension
Kiro doesn't ship with Microsoft's WSL extension, and the official extension isn't available on Open VSX. The Open Remote - WSL extension by jeanp413 bridges the gap — but it requires an easy-to-miss argv.json configuration step, breaks predictably on Kiro updates, and has terminal routing quirks that will cost you an hour if you don't know about them. Here's the complete setup, the failure modes, and the recovery procedures.