Amazon Q Developer CLI announces support for remote MCP servers

Amazon Q Developer CLI announces support for remote MCP servers. Remote MCP servers improve scalability and security of the tools you use within your development tasks. Not only does it reduce the use of compute resources by moving to a centralized server, it also helps you better manage access and security. You can now integrate with MCP servers such as Atlassian, and GitHub that support HTTP and support OAuth based authentication.

To configure a remote MCP server, specify the transport type as HTTP, the URL where users will get authentication credentials, and any optional headers to include when making the request. You can configure remote MCP servers in your custom agent configuration or in mcp.json. When a CLI session is initiated, you will see the list of MCP servers to load and can query the list for the authentication URL. Once you successfully complete the authentication steps, Q Developer CLI will query the tools available from the MCP server and make it available to the agent.

Remote MCP servers are available in Amazon Q Developer CLI and Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins. For more information, check out the documentation.