# Get started with the Amazon Quick Sight API
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You can manage most aspects of your deployment with the AWS SDKs to access an API that's tailored to the programming language or platform that you're using. For more information, see [AWS SDKs](http://aws.amazon.com/tools/#SDKs). For more information about specific API operations, see [Quick Sight API Reference](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/index.html?id=docs_gateway). 

Use the topics in this section to get started with the Quick Sight API and SDKs.

**Topics**
+ [Prerequisites](getting-started-prerequisites.md)
+ [Make Quick Sight API requests](getting-started-making-api-requests.md)
+ [Use CLI skeleton files](cli-skeletons.md)
+ [Use the Quick Sight Dev Portal](getting-started-dev-portal.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon Quick Sight. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query quicksight` — 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).