AWS Agent Skills

Supercharge Claude Code with AWS cloud engineering skills across 18 core AWS services.

🚀 Why AWS Agent Skills?

Developing AWS solutions is complex spanning IAM, compute, storage, security, serverless, networking, and more.

AWS Agent Skills equips Claude Code (and Codex) with deep expertise across 18 AWS domains, enabling automated cloud engineering support from IaC templates to debugging guidance and security best practices.

Automatically checks AWS documentation for updates on a weekly basis to ensure skills stay current with AWS service changes.

Why not just use an MCP?

AWS MCP is great for live docs and API calls, but AWS Agent Skills is designed for reasoning first. It gives AI Agents a curated, LLM-optimized AWS knowledge base with real-world patterns, edge cases, and best practices, without streaming large docs or schemas. Because the skills are local and pre compressed, it is far more token efficient, keeps the context window small and predictable, and avoids MCP infrastructure, latency, and expanded credential exposure.

Installation

Claude Code

From Marketplace

# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills

# Install the plugin
/plugin install aws-agent-skills

From GitHub

/plugin install https://github.com/itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills

Local Development

/plugin install ./path/to/aws-agent-skills

Codex CLI

# Add the marketplace
codex plugin marketplace add itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills

# Install the plugin
codex plugin add aws-agent-skills@aws-agent-skills

# Verify
codex plugin list -m aws-agent-skills

To pull the latest skills later:

codex plugin marketplace upgrade aws-agent-skills

To uninstall:

codex plugin remove aws-agent-skills@aws-agent-skills
codex plugin marketplace remove aws-agent-skills

Available Skills

Skill	Description
iam	Identity and Access Management - users, roles, policies, permissions
lambda	Serverless functions - deployment, triggers, debugging
dynamodb	NoSQL database - table design, queries, indexes
s3	Object storage - buckets, objects, security, lifecycle
api-gateway	REST and HTTP APIs - integrations, authorization
ec2	Virtual machines - instances, AMIs, networking
ecs	Container orchestration - clusters, services, tasks
eks	Kubernetes - clusters, node groups, IRSA
cloudformation	Infrastructure as Code - templates, stacks, drift
cloudwatch	Monitoring - logs, metrics, alarms, dashboards
rds	Relational databases - instances, backups, replication
sqs	Message queues - standard, FIFO, dead-letter queues
sns	Notifications - topics, subscriptions, filtering
cognito	User authentication - user pools, identity pools, OAuth
step-functions	Workflow orchestration - state machines, error handling
secrets-manager	Secret storage - rotation, versioning, RDS integration
eventbridge	Event bus - rules, patterns, cross-account events
bedrock	Foundation models - inference, RAG, custom models

Usage Examples

IAM Policy Creation

Ask Claude to help with IAM:

• "Create an IAM policy for Lambda to access DynamoDB"
• "Set up cross-account access for S3"
• "Debug this access denied error"

Lambda Development

• "Create a Python Lambda function triggered by S3"
• "Debug my Lambda timeout issues"
• "Set up Lambda with VPC access"

Infrastructure as Code

• "Write a CloudFormation template for a serverless API"
• "Create an ECS Fargate service with load balancer"
• "Set up EventBridge rules for scheduled tasks"

Skill Structure

Each skill contains:

• SKILL.md - Core concepts, patterns, CLI reference, best practices, troubleshooting
• Supplementary files - Deep dives into specific topics

Skills include metadata showing when content was last updated, so you always know how current the information is.

Contributing

1. Fork this repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Add or update skills, following the structure of the existing ones
4. Submit a pull request

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.