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IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal
As of 29 August 2026, Fig is free to use. Fig adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal. Softwr lists it under Developer Tools. Fig is made by Fig (now Amazon), launched in 2020.
Overview
What Fig does
Fig adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal. It provides visual autocomplete suggestions for CLI tools, commands, and arguments, making the command line more accessible and productive for developers.
The honest half
Where it falls short
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- Shut down on 1 September 2024. Amazon acquired Fig in August 2023 and folded it into Amazon Q Developer, which now carries the terminal autocomplete
- The standalone desktop app is no longer available or supported
- The completion specs remain open source on GitHub, but the product that consumed them is gone
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Behind it
Who makes Fig
- Company
- Fig (now Amazon)
- Based in
- San Francisco, California, USA
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- Visual Studio Code
- ESLint
- Turborepo
- pnpm
- Sweep
- Cody
- Warp
- Keycloak
- Rust
- CodeSandbox
- Vite
- Daytona
- Ona (formerly Gitpod)
- GNU Emacs
- Keil MDK
- Bazel
- Warp
- Vite
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