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Amazon Q Developer

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AWS's AI coding assistant and agent integrated across the IDE, CLI, and AWS console — code generation, security scanning, agent-mode workflows, and AWS-native transforms.

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Config files Amazon Q Developer has changed

Config you own — hooks, permission rules, MCP servers, settings — that releases below state a change to. Counted from the release notes we track, newest change first. How a harness is layered.

MCP server config3 changes · 12 releases touched it · latest Sep 19, 2025 · v1.16.2 ↗
permission rules1 change · 10 releases touched it · latest Apr 10, 2025 · v1.7.3 ↗
context and compaction settings1 change · 5 releases touched it · latest Apr 29, 2025 · v1.9.0 ↗
slash commands1 change · 4 releases touched it · latest Jul 31, 2025 · v1.13.0 ↗

Release signals

Amazon Q Developerv.1.15.0Sep 2, 2025

feat: add tangent mode for isolated conversations

  • Apply cargo +nightly fmt formatting
  • feat: implement agent-scoped knowledge base and context-specific search
  • Short-Term fix for SendTelemetry API Validation errors
  • feat: add introspect tool for Q CLI self-awareness
  • Format fix
  • Update q-developer smithy clients and reformat files
  • feat: add tangent mode duration tracking telemetry
  • Add to-do list functionality to QCLI
  • first round changes for agent generate for workshopping
  • fix: update per-prompt timestamp to include local time zone information
  • +15 more changes
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Amazon Q Developerv1.14.1Aug 21, 2025

feat: add github action for release notification

  • feat(agent): hot swap
  • feat: adding glob pattern support for agent configuration
  • fix(agent hot swap): unwrap on pid
  • fix(ci): resolve CI pipeline failures
  • feat: added mcp admin level configuration with GetProfile
  • fix(agent): tool permission
  • chore: bump version to 1.14.1
  • adding telemetry for mcp tool names available and mcp tool names selected
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Full Changelog: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli/compare/v1.14.0...v1.14.1

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Amazon Q Developerv1.14.0Aug 18, 2025

chore: integrate backend API and remove hardcoded model options

  • Knowledge beta improvements
  • fix: Add client-side modelName mapping for backward compatibility
  • feat: add delay tracking interceptor for retry notifications
  • fix(agent): tool permission override
  • fix: add more safety checks for execute_bash readonly checks
  • feat(models): add region-specific fallback models for iad and fra
  • chore: bump version to 1.14.0
  • Revert "fix(agent): tool permission override"
  • Knowledge beta improvements phase 2: Refactor async_client and add support for BM25
  • +2 more changes
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Amazon Q Developerv1.13.3Aug 12, 2025

feat(agent): adds globbing support for tool settings deny

  • Implement Retry Classifier for Adaptive Rate Limiting
  • feat: add cloudtrail tracking to execute_bash
  • fix: prompt caching with timestamp included
  • fix: q mcp add subcommand failing when mcp.json is not found
  • Fix and Simplify retry-classifier
  • chore: bump version to 1.13.3
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New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli/compare/v1.13.2...v1.13.3

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Amazon Q Developerv1.13.2Aug 9, 2025

fix: Sanitize hidden Unicode characters from user and tool inputs

  • fix: mcp list and mcp status subcommands
  • fix(agent): context slashcommand
  • Regex-formatted allowed commands for execute_bash tool
  • feat: add experimental model for amazon users
  • chore: bump version to 1.13.2
  • fix: remove 20b model from list
  • fix: add gpt-oss for all users
  • fix: knowledge tool permission
  • feat(mcp): support env vars in the mcp config file
  • Fix docs: Rust agent example JSON invalid
  • docs: Update link for MCP in Q developer CLI help output.
  • +13 more changes
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Amazon Q Developerv1.13.1Aug 4, 2025

fix: broken link in docs to built-in tools

  • chore: add docs on profile to agent migration
  • chore: fix references to the agent file location
  • fix(agent): deprecate slash profile subcommand
  • fix(agent): permission reset
  • feat: add schema to agent
  • fix: uses struct discriminates as hash key for native tools
  • chore: bump version to 1.13.1
  • fix(agent): trust tools arg
  • Update agent-file-locations.md
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Amazon Q Developerv1.13.0Jul 31, 2025

Persona enablement

  • (feat): Add support for batch file reading in fs_read tool
  • Fix: error from merge for fs read
  • chore: remove autocomplete
  • fix: remove unnecessary print
  • fixes migration workflow not differentiating between home dir and cwd
  • fixes slash command not reflecting changes in agent
  • revives conversation load
  • hides agent persistent subcommands and rewords deprecate messages
  • fix: build script referencing old script names
  • fix: Improve quota breach error message for better user experience
  • fix: issues with /compact, bumping the version to v1.12.4
  • +61 more changes
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Amazon Q Developerv1.10.1May 16, 2025

fix: migrations logic to appropriately handle all migrations

  • chore: fix tests
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Full Changelog: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli/compare/v1.10.0...v1.10.1

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Amazon Q Developerv1.10.0May 16, 2025

fix: sets custom tool flag for custom tools

  • feat: region expansion
  • fix: add correct profile arn for clients, allow changing start url from cli login
  • fix: modal not closing during login after selecting a profile
  • fix(chat): Remove duplicate /context command help text
  • fix: add profile arn in user profile subcommand and dashboard
  • fix(chat): Prevent guide text output in no-interactive mode
  • fix: make default for fuzzy find ctrl + s
  • bump to 1.10.0
  • chore: bump generated clients to 0.1.8200
  • fix: replace code coverage step in github actions with cargo test
  • +87 more changes
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Amazon Q Developerv1.9.0Apr 29, 2025

Mcp enablement squashed

  • feat: fuzzy select profiles
  • refactor(/compact): deprecate --summary to show summary by default
  • fix: gh issue transcript size exceeding url limit
  • fix: update context and user content dividers to match system prompt content
  • Pretty print fs_read
  • fix: add flag for logging in with device flow on CLI, fix broken sigint handling during auth
  • makes it so that chained command always requires permission
  • copy changes for mcp release
  • chore: bump version to 1.9.0
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Amazon Q Developerv1.8.1Apr 26, 2025

refactor(chat): move chat to a separate lib crate

  • chore(deps-dev): bump glob from 11.0.1 to 11.0.2
  • chore(deps-dev): bump vite from 6.2.6 to 6.3.3
  • fix(deps): bump tokio-util from 0.7.14 to 0.7.15
  • fix(deps): bump lucide-react from 0.487.0 to 0.503.0
  • chore(deps-dev): bump @bufbuild/buf from 1.52.0 to 1.53.0
  • fix: don't retry compaction if it fails
  • chore: bump version to 1.8.1
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Full Changelog: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli/compare/v1.8.0...v1.8.1

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Amazon Q Developerv1.8.0Apr 24, 2025

fix(/context ui): declutter and increase visual hierachy

  • fix(/profile ux): default `/profile` to `/profile help`
  • chore(deps-dev): bump vite from 6.2.5 to 6.2.6
  • chore(deps-dev): bump eslint-config-prettier from 10.1.1 to 10.1.2
  • fix(deps): bump tokio-vsock from 0.6.0 to 0.7.1
  • chore(deps-dev): bump @vscode/test-electron from 2.5.1 to 2.5.2
  • fix(deps): bump bstr from 1.11.3 to 1.12.0
  • fix: set a reqwest client as the http client for the aws sdk clients to enable system proxy use
  • Mcp enablement squashed
  • docs: Fix typo in Windows installation section
  • +37 more changes
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Amazon Q Developerv1.7.3Apr 10, 2025

feat: add rfc process

  • Mcp enablement squashed
  • Revert "Mcp enablement squashed"
  • Mcp enablement squashed
  • Update README file to update commands and make it easy to copy-paste CLI commands directly
  • feat(cli) Bash pipe command safety
  • Revert "Mcp enablement squashed"
  • Add file/folder name auto-completion in q chat
  • fix(build): Support aarch64 architecture in AppImage bundle name (#937)
  • feat(chat): no-interactive mode
  • fix(chat): Improve command parsing to handle paths starting with slash
  • docs: add onboarding tips for using Q CLI in README
  • +80 more changes
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Amazon Q Developerv1.7.2Mar 21, 2025

chore: add env var override for the SendMessage API, for testing purposes

  • chore: update max tool response size to match the backend limit
  • feat(cli): Add context management feature with profiles
  • 🔧 Improve glibc version detection in install.sh
  • fix: show request id on errors encountered during the response stream
  • fix: update profile and context help
  • feat: add search to fs_read, refactoring fs_read into different modes
  • chore: add beta notice to /profile and /context help text
  • bskiser/bump version 1.7.2
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Polled sources

[aws-whats-new] AWS What’s New

html · every 360m

https://aws.amazon.com/new/

[q-docs] Amazon Q Developer docs

html · every 720m

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/what-is.html

[aws-blog-q-developer] AWS Developer Tools Blog (Q)

html · every 720m

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/category/developer-tools/amazon-q-developer/

Last error: HTTP 404 fetching https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/category/developer-tools/amazon-q-developer/

[github-releases] Amazon Q CLI (aws/amazon-q-developer-cli) Releases

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https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli/releases

[aws-whatsnew-q] AWS What's New (Amazon Q)

html · every 360m

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/developer-tools/?whats-new-content.sort-by=item.additionalFields.postDateTime&whats-new-content.sort-order=desc&awsf.whats-new-guidance=guidance%23amazon-q