AWS Chatbot is now Amazon Q Developer. [Learn more](service-rename.md)

# Customizing Amazon Q Developer in chat applications
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Items you can customize include:
+ Notifications
+ Actions
+ Command aliases
+ Amazon Bedrock agents

You can also customize these items using AWS software development kits (SDKs), the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), and AWS CloudFormation.

**Topics**
+ [Custom notifications using Amazon Q Developer in chat applications](custom-notifs.md)
+ [Custom actions using Amazon Q Developer in chat applications](custom-actions.md)
+ [Creating and using command aliases in chat channels](creating-aliases.md)
+ [Invoking Amazon Bedrock Agents from chat channels using Amazon Q Developer in chat applications](connect-bedrock-agents.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon Q Developer in chat applications. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query chatbot` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).