Fig (Terminal Autocomplete)

Fig (now part of Amazon AWS as Amazon Q Developer in the CLI) is a terminal autocomplete tool that provides IDE-style autocomplete and inline suggestions for over 500 CLI tools directly in your terminal. Founded by Brendan Falk and Matt Schranz in 2020 and acquired by AWS in 2023, Fig gained over 25,000 stars before the transition. Fig integrates natively with iTerm2, Terminal.app, Hyper, VS Code terminal, and other popular macOS terminal emulators, providing real-time, context-aware suggestions as you type. Key features include: visual autocomplete popup (a native macOS popup that appears inline in the terminal as you type, showing subcommands, flags, and option values with descriptions), support for 500+ CLI tools (including git, docker, npm, yarn, kubectl, aws, gcloud, az, terraform, ansible, brew, ssh, curl, and hundreds more), context-aware suggestions (offering different options based on your current input context, history, and the specific command being typed), option value completion (providing dropdown menus for enum values like true/false, file paths, branch names, and container names), inline documentation (showing descriptions and usage hints for each command, flag, and option), IDE-style features (multi-key shortcuts, keyboard navigation, and fast fuzzy search), script integration (autocomplete specs written in TypeScript, allowing the community to add support for new tools), dotfiles integration (syncing your terminal configuration, aliases, and scripts across machines), SSH profile management, secure credential storage (storing secrets in the macOS Keychain), and team sharing (sharing autocomplete specs and configurations across your team). After the AWS acquisition, Fig's technology powers Amazon Q Developer command line assistance.