Announcing IDE workspace context awareness in Q Developer chat
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The article announces a new feature for the Amazon Q Developer chat in integrated development environments (IDEs): workspace context awareness. This allows developers to ask questions about their entire codebase or application, not just the currently open file.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Developers can now add "@workspace" to their chat messages to ask questions about the code in their entire project
- Q Developer automatically ingests and indexes all code files, configurations, and project structure when "@workspace" is used
- The index is stored locally and created the first time "@workspace" is mentioned
- To use this feature, developers need the latest Amazon Q Developer IDE extension and can ask questions like "@workspace what does this codebase do?"
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