Amazon Q Developer CLI
AI-powered terminal assistant from AWS. Natural language chat, command autocompletion, code generation. Agentic mode reads files, runs commands, and calls AWS APIs. Free tier.
Amazon Q Developer CLI (the successor to Fig) brings an agentic, chat-driven coding assistant to your terminal. It generates code, suggests commands, explains flags, scaffolds files, and performs routine dev tasks using natural language, blending knowledge of your local workspace with command-line context. The agent mode uses Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet for multi-step reasoning and can read and write files locally, call AWS APIs, run bash commands, and use MCP server-based tools while adapting to your feedback in real time. IDE-style autocomplete for hundreds of popular CLIs runs locally with sub-10ms latency via a lightweight on-device model. Available for macOS Terminal, iTerm2, and VS Code terminal. The free Individual tier is generous enough for daily use. Pro is $19/user/month with higher limits and admin controls.
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