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    aws/amazon-q-developer-cli

    #539 this week

    ✨ Agentic chat experience in your terminal. Build applications using natural language.

    ai-agents
    ai
    cli
    llm
    ios
    agent
    amazon-q
    linux
    macos
    mcp
    Rust
    Apache-2.0
    2.0K stars
    442 forks
    2.0K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 13, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #539 of 2,794 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 19%).

    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 336 days ago, with 79 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #93 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 28, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a terminal-based agentic chat interface to build applications using natural language commands.
    • Enables developers to interact with AI-driven workflows directly from the command line, enhancing productivity without leaving the terminal.
    • Use for rapidly prototyping AI-powered CLI tools that interpret natural language inputs on macOS and Linux.
    • Use for integrating large language model capabilities into shell scripts and developer automation pipelines.
    • Use for developers seeking an open-source Rust-based CLI to experiment with conversational AI in terminal environments.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

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

    Before getting started, see our contributing docs.

    Excerpt from the aws/amazon-q-developer-cli README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    442+5

    Open issues

    1.3K+43

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