Generating GitHub Actions Workflows with Kiro

I had a Python Lambda project sitting in a repo with zero CI/CD. No pipeline, no automation, just sam deploy from my laptop like it's 2019. So I used Kiro to generate a complete GitHub Actions pipeline — build, test, deploy — and watched it go green on the first push. Okay fine, the third push. But who's counting. Here's exactly how I did it. The Setup The project is simple on purpose. A Python Lambda function behind API Gateway, deployed with AWS SAM: ├── src/ │ └── app.py # Lambda handler ├── tests/ │ └── test_app.py # pytest unit tests ├── template.yaml # SAM template ├── samconfig.toml # SAM deploy config └── .kiro/skills/ └── github-actions-cicd/ # Kiro skill The Lambda handler uses Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) — a developer toolkit that gives you structured JSON logging, tracing, and metrics out of the box. I'm only using the Logger here, which gives me structured logs with correlation IDs and cold start tracking with a single decorator: from aws_lambda_powertools import Lo