Amazon Q Developer Cli

Amazon Q CLI brings IDE-style autocomplete and agentic capabilities to your terminal.

😍 Features

• 🔮 Auto Completion: IDE-style completions to hundreds of popular CLIs like git, npm, docker, and aws.
• 💬 Natural Language Chat: Interact with your terminal using natural language to ask questions, debug issues, or explore the codebase.
• 🧠 Contextual Awareness: Integrates context from your local development environment, so answers are tailored to your specific code and setup.
• 🤖 Agentic Execution: Let Amazon Q take action: generate code, edit files, automate Git workflows, resolve merge conflicts, and more — with your permission.

⚡️ Installation

• macOS:
  • DMG: Download now
  • Homebrew: brew install amazon-q
• Linux:
  • Ubuntu/Debian
  • AppImage
  • Alternative Linux builds
• Windows:
  • Follow the discussions for Windows
  • Or use it on Windows with WSL
• Remote machines
  • Autocomplete in SSH

🚀 Start Contributing

Prerequisites

• MacOS
  • Xcode 13 or later
  • Brew

1. Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-for-command-line.git

2. Setup

Hassle-free setup:

npm run setup

Or if you'd like to DIY:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config jq dpkg curl wget cmake clang libssl-dev libgtk-3-dev libayatana-appindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev libdbus-1-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-dev valac libibus-1.0-dev libglib2.0-dev sqlite3 libxdo-dev protobuf-compiler

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
rustup default stable

rustup toolchain install nightly
cargo install typos-cli

rustup target add x86_64-apple-darwin
rustup target add aarch64-apple-darwin

echo 'eval "$(mise activate zsh)"' >> "${ZDOTDIR-$HOME}/.zshrc"

echo 'eval "$(mise activate bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc

echo 'mise activate fish | source' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish

mise trust
mise install

pnpm install --ignore-scripts

3. Start Local Development

To compile and view changes made to q chat:

cargo run --bin chat_cli

If you are working on other q commands, just append -- <command name>. For example, to run q login, you can run cargo run --bin chat_cli -- login

To run tests for the Q CLI crate:

cargo test -p chat_cli

To format Rust files:

cargo +nightly fmt

To run clippy:

cargo clippy --locked --workspace --color always -- -D warnings

💡 Quick Tip for Onboarding

Use Q CLI to help you onboard Q CLI!

Start a q chat session:

q chat

Once inside q chat, you can supply project context by adding the codebase-summary.md file:

/context add codebase-summary.md

This enables Q to answer onboarding questions like:

• “What does this crate do?”

• “Where is X implemented?”

• “How do these components interact?”

Great for speeding up your ramp-up and navigating the repo more effectively.

🏗️ Project Layout

Several projects live here:

• autocomplete - The autocomplete react app
• dashboard - The dashboard react app
• figterm - figterm, our headless terminal/pseudoterminal that intercepts the user’s terminal edit buffer.
• q_cli - the q CLI, allows users to interface with Amazon Q Developer from the command line
• fig_desktop - the Rust desktop app, uses tao/wry for windowing/webviews
• fig_input_method - The input method used to get cursor position on macOS
• vscode - Contains the VSCode plugin needed for the Amazon Q Developer for command line to work in VSCode
• jetbrains - Contains the VSCode plugin needed for the Amazon Q Developer for command line to work in Jetbrains IDEs

Other folder to be aware of

• build-scripts/ - Contains all python scripts to build, sign, and test the project on macOS and Linux
• crates/ - Contains all internal rust crates
• packages/ - Contains all internal npm packages
• proto/ - protocol buffer message specification for inter-process communication
• tests/ - Contain integration tests for the projects

Below is a high level architecture of how the different components of the app and their IPC:

🛡️ Security

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

📜 Licensing

This repo is dual licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses.

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