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Amazon Q Developer
AWS's AI-powered assistant for software development with agentic coding capabilities.
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Amazon Q Developer is AWS's generative AI-powered assistant for software development across the entire lifecycle.
## Key Features
- **Agentic coding**: Implement features, document, test, review, and refactor code autonomously
- **Code suggestions**: Real-time snippets to full functions in 25+ languages
- **Security scanning**: Detects exposed credentials, log injection, and vulnerabilities
- **Code reviews**: Automated detection of anti-patterns, duplication, and security issues
- **@workspace**: Understand entire project context from auth flows to dependencies
- **MCP support**: Connect to external tools and services
## Supported Languages
Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin, C, C++, SQL, Scala, JSON, YAML, HCL, and more
## IDE Support
- VS Code (AWS Toolkit)
- JetBrains family (IntelliJ, PyCharm, GoLand, etc.)
- Eclipse (preview)
- Visual Studio
- AWS Cloud9
- Lambda console
## Usage
```bash
# VS Code
# Install "AWS Toolkit" extension
# CLI
npm install -g @aws/q-developer
q chat
```