Checkpointing & Restore

Sometimes you’ll encounter issues during development. Kiro provides a Checkpointing feature to help you recover.

How checkpointing works

As Kiro modifies your codebase, it automatically creates checkpoint markers. These checkpoints help Kiro understand and rewind changes when something goes wrong.

You have two options when encountering issues:

1. Work with Kiro to fix it — Describe the problem in chat and let Kiro debug and resolve the issue.
2. Restore to a checkpoint — Click Restore to rewind to a previous known-good state.

Tip

Checkpointing is especially useful when a task produces unexpected results. Instead of manually undoing changes, you can restore to the state before the problematic task and try a different approach.