Amazon Q Developer CLI brings an agentic, chat-driven coding assistant to your terminal so you can ask for help, generate code, and perform routine dev tasks with natural language. It blends knowledge of your local workspace with command-line context to suggest commands, explain flags, and scaffold files or workflows. The tool aims to shorten the gap between intent and action by letting you request operations like creating a test, refactoring a function, or drafting a Dockerfile without leaving the shell. It also integrates with common developer flows, offering autocompletion and step-by-step plans before running potentially destructive actions. The CLI targets macOS and Linux and is designed to coexist with standard tools rather than replace them, acting as a smart layer on top. Team-focused features center on repeatability and transparency so generated changes can be reviewed, amended, and committed like any other code.
Features
- Agentic chat in the terminal to plan and execute coding tasks
- Context-aware command help and CLI autocompletion suggestions
- Code generation, refactors, and test scaffolding with reviewable diffs
- Workspace awareness to operate on the files and tech stack you already use
- Guardrails that preview actions and ask consent before running commands
- Works alongside existing CLIs and editors without lock-in