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Amazon Q Developer Cli

Amazon Q Developer Cli

github.com/awsCoding Agents2.0kUpdated 27w ago
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About Amazon Q Developer Cli

Amazon Q CLI is a terminal-based agentic chat tool for building applications through natural language. The README states the open source project is no longer actively maintained and only receives critical security fixes, with Kiro CLI as the closed-source successor.

Key features

  1. 01Agentic chat experience in the terminal
  2. 02Natural language application building
  3. 03q command line tool for Amazon Q Developer
  4. 04Rust codebase organized into multiple crates

Use cases

  1. 01Interacting with Amazon Q Developer from the command line
  2. 02Studying or contributing to the Amazon Q CLI source code

Details

From the project README

Amazon Q CLI

Important

This open source project is no longer being actively maintained and will only receive critical security fixes. Amazon Q Developer CLI is now available as Kiro CLI, a closed-source product. For the latest features and updates, please use Kiro CLI. For issues with Kiro CLI, please report it here instead.

Installation

Contributing

Thank you so much for considering to contribute to Amazon Q.

Before getting started, see our contributing docs.

Prerequisites
  • MacOS
    • Xcode 13 or later
    • Brew
1. Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli.git
2. Install the Rust toolchain using Rustup:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
rustup default stable
rustup toolchain install nightly
cargo install typos-cli
3. Develop locally
  • To compile and run: cargo run --bin chat_cli.
  • To run tests: cargo test.
  • To run lints: cargo clippy.
  • To format rust files: cargo +nightly fmt.
  • To run subcommands: cargo run --bin chat_cli -- {subcommand}.
    • Login would then be: cargo run --bin chat_cli -- login

Project Layout

  • chat_cli - the q CLI, allows users to interface with Amazon Q Developer from the command line
  • scripts/ - Contains ops and build related scripts
  • crates/ - Contains all rust crates
  • docs/ - Contains technical documentation

Security

For security related concerns, see here.

Licensing

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

Those licenses can be found here and here.

“Amazon Web Services” and all related marks, including logos, graphic designs, and service names, are trademarks or trade dress of AWS in the U.S. and other countries. AWS’s trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not AWS’s, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits AWS.

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