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
- Fork this repository
- Create a feature branch
- Add or update skills, following the structure of the existing ones
- Submit a pull request
License
MIT License - see LICENSE for details.