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Where Kiro CLI stores your chat sessions

Kiro CLI, formerly Amazon Q Developer CLI, keeps sessions in a local SQLite database and session files. What is documented, and how to resume, save and delete sessions.

Updated October 29, 2026 // Markdown

Quick factsas of October 2026 (Kiro CLI 2.34.0)
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Amazon Web Services
History lives in
  • Documented~/.kiro/ (SQLite database)
  • Linux (reported)~/.local/share/kiro-cli/data.sqlite3
  • Windows (reported)%LOCALAPPDATA%\Kiro-Cli\data.sqlite3
Format
SQLite plus JSON session files
Kept for
No automatic expiry documented
Resume
kiro-cli chat --resume
Cloud copy
Local sessions do not sync; --cloud sessions are stored in your account

Kiro CLI is the terminal agent from AWS, renamed from Amazon Q Developer CLI. Its storage is only partly documented.

Where sessions are

Kiro's documentation says sessions are kept in a SQLite database in ~/.kiro/. User-filed issues give more detail, which we have not confirmed in Kiro's own docs:

System Reported path
Linux ~/.local/share/kiro-cli/data.sqlite3
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Kiro-Cli\data.sqlite3
Session files ~/.kiro/sessions/cli/<uuid>.json and .jsonl

Data from the old Amazon Q CLI lives under amazon-q/data.sqlite3 in your local data directory.

Resume, save and delete

kiro-cli chat --resume
kiro-cli chat --resume-picker
kiro-cli chat --resume-id <id>
kiro-cli chat --list-sessions
kiro-cli chat --delete-session <id>

Inside a chat, /chat save <file> and /chat load <file> save and restore a conversation, and /sessions clean tidies old ones.

Privacy notes

Local sessions do not sync. Sessions started with --cloud are stored in your AWS account.

The groundedby evaluator does not read Kiro sessions yet.

Questions

Is Kiro CLI the same as Amazon Q Developer CLI?+

Yes. Amazon Q Developer CLI was renamed Kiro CLI. Older Q CLI data sits in an amazon-q folder in your local data directory.

Where exactly does Kiro CLI keep sessions?+

Kiro's docs say only that sessions are kept in a SQLite database in ~/.kiro/. User reports put the database at ~/.local/share/kiro-cli/data.sqlite3 on Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Kiro-Cli\data.sqlite3 on Windows, with session files under ~/.kiro/sessions/cli/.

Sources

  1. Kiro docs, CLI session management
  2. Kiro docs, migrating from Amazon Q Developer CLI

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