# aws/amazon-q-developer-cli

✨ Agentic chat experience in your terminal. Build applications using natural language.

Repository: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/amazon-q-developer-cli
Homepage: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/command-line-installing.html
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: ai, amazon-q, cli, llm, productivity, rust, terminal, typescript, open-source, linux, macos, shell, agent, mcp
Last push: 2026-08-24T22:13:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 57, longevity 50
- inputs: {"age_days": 709, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 289, "gap_med": 3.5, "n_releases_24m": 37}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1985, forks 434 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:02.632264+00:00)

## What it is
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 The project is no longer actively maintained and only receives critical security fixes, as development moved to the closed-source Kiro CLI.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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, agent-framework, chatbot, llm-inference, mcp, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, artificial-intelligence, large-language-models
- platform: cli, rust
- tags: amazon-q, agentic-chat, terminal-ai, aws, natural-language-coding, successor-kiro-cli, command-line, ai-agents, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- aws/amazon-q-developer-cli (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:02.632264+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:03:16.086629+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:02.632264+00:00, sha c7ea66adfb40)
  - homepage: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/command-line-installing.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:42:58.171019+00:00, sha 085911d72c75)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.