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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:
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-developer-cli-autocomplete.git

2. Setup

Hassle-free setup:

npm run setup

Or if you’d like to DIY:

Manual Setup

1. Install platform dependencies

For Debian/Ubuntu:

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

2. Install Rust toolchain using Rustup:

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

For pre-commit hooks, the following commands are required:

rustup toolchain install nightly
cargo install typos-cli

For MacOS development make sure the right targets are installed:

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

3. Setup Python and Node using `mise`

Add mise integrations to your shell:

For zsh:

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

For bash:

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

For fish:

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

Install the Python and Node toolchains using:

mise trust
mise install

4. Setup precommit hooks

Run pnpm in root directory to add pre-commit hooks:

pnpm install --ignore-scripts

3. Start Local Development

To compile and view changes made to q chat:

cargo run --bin q_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 q_cli -- login

To run tests for the Q CLI crate:

cargo test -p q_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:

architecture

🛡️ Security

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

📜 Licensing

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

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