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.

Package Types

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

Quick Links

• 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

Example ara.json

{
  "$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": "developer@example.com",
  "tags": ["code-review", "automation"],
  "type": "kiro-agent"
}

Security

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.