2 posts tagged with "spec-kit"

Spec Kit with Amazon Q Developer: Findings and Quirks

October 10, 2025 · 4 min read

Lead engineer

I recently explored further spec-driven development using GitHub's Spec Kit with Amazon Q Developer. This became possible after the Amazon Q Developer team merged PR #2799 (custom prompt support) and the Spec Kit team merged PR #600 (Q Developer integration).

Here's what I discovered along the way - the good, the quirks, and the gotchas.

Versions Used

Spec Kit: 0.0.64
Amazon Q CLI: 1.17.0

Bridging Microsoft Spec Kit to Amazon Q Developer with MCP

September 29, 2025 · 6 min read

Akhan Zhakiyanov

Lead engineer

warning

This is just a workaround while waiting for native spec-kit support for Q Developer:

✅ Amazon Q Developer CLI Enhancement: PR #2799 was created to add custom prompt support
🚧 Spec Kit Implementation: PR #600 by Heejae Kim is implementing native Q Developer support

As outlined in GitHub's official announcement, developers can now use their AI tool of choice (Claude, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot, etc) for spec-driven development with GitHub's open source Spec Kit, but Q Developer users are left out of this unified experience.

We can address this missing piece with local stdio MCP server bridge while we wait for native support to land in Spec Kit.