Amazon Q CLI is a next-generation developer tool that brings IDE-style autocomplete and agentic capabilities to your terminal. I’ve spent a lot of time writing about this powerful tool, so I was especially excited when v1.9.x was released in May—it introduced support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for tools use.
What is Model Context Protocol (MCP)? If you have not heard about MCP (where have you been?) then check out my colleague’s post on this, Standardizing AI Tooling with Model Context Protocol (MCP)