Amazon Q Developer Configuration

AMAZON Q DEVELOPER(1)AI Tool ReferenceAMAZON Q DEVELOPER(1)

NAME

amazon-q — Amazon Q Developer is AWS's AI coding assistant available in IDEs, the CLI, and the AWS console.

METADATA

TYPE
CLI

PRICE
Freemium

VERIFIED
2026-03-17

STATUS
ACTIVE

LINKS

Documentation Repository Website

CONFIG FILES

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Q Developer is AWS's AI coding assistant available in IDEs, the CLI, and the AWS console. It supports MCP server configuration (migrating from mcp.json to default.json), project-level rules in markdown format, custom CLI agent definitions, and agent-level MCP server scoping. Rules are automatically used as context when chatting with Q within your project.

RECENT CHANGES

2026-02-15enhMCP governance features for enterprise deployments

2026-02-01enhCustom agents via .amazonq/cli-agents/*.json

2026-01-15bre.amazonq/default.json replaces mcp.json for configuration

2025-07-15enhAmazon Q adds .amazonq/rules/ for project-level instructions

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