Extend Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins with MCP tools

Today, Amazon Q Developer announced support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) in the integrated development environment (IDE) plugins, enabling developers to utilize external tools to support richer contextual, development workflows. MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how AI models can, in a secure and structured way, access external tools, data sources, and APIs.

You can now augment the list of built-in tools with any MCP server that supports the stdio transport layer. MCP servers can be managed within the Q Developer user interface, making it easy to add or remove servers, and modify tool permissions. By extending your IDE, Q Developer is able to provide more customized responses by orchestrating tasks across native and MCP server-based tools.

MCP support is available within the Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDE plugins, and Amazon Q Developer CLI. To get started, visit the Amazon Q Developer documentation or read the blog to learn more.