Agent-related settings - Amazon Q Developer
ExamplesAgent selection priority

Agent-related settings

The chat.defaultAgent setting determines which agent Amazon Q Developer CLI uses when no specific agent is provided via the --agent flag.

Examples

# Set a custom agent as default
q settings chat.defaultAgent my-dev-agent

# View current default agent
q settings chat.defaultAgent

# Reset to built-in default
q settings chat.defaultAgent ""

Agent selection priority

  1. Command-line: q chat --agent specific-agent

  2. User setting: Value of chat.defaultAgent

  3. Built-in default: Fallback agent with basic configuration