aws/amazon-q-developer-cli

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1985 stars · 434 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Amazon Q Developer CLI is an open-source Rust-based terminal tool providing an agentic AI chat experience for building applications with natural language, with MCP support. The project is no longer actively maintained and only receives critical security fixes, as development moved to the closed-source Kiro CLI.

Use cases

• chat with an AI agent in my terminal
• build applications using natural language from the shell
• use MCP tools from a CLI assistant
• get coding help without leaving the terminal
• run an agentic coding assistant on Linux or macOS

When to choose

• you want an open-source terminal AI agent and accept limited maintenance
• you need the legacy Amazon Q Developer CLI for existing AWS workflows
• you want to study or fork an agentic CLI implementation in Rust

When to avoid

• you want actively developed features - use Kiro CLI instead
• you need a fully open-source product going forward, since the successor is closed-source
• you require Windows support

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

cli agent-framework chatbot llm-inference mcp developer-tools developer-tools artificial-intelligence large-language-models cli rust amazon-q agentic-chat terminal-ai aws natural-language-coding successor-kiro-cli command-line ai-agents macos linux

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