Agent Skills for AWS
SkillAWS's official skills (Agent Toolkit for AWS) covering IAM, CDK/CloudFormation, serverless, containers, observability, cost management and Bedrock, plus service-specific skills. Running AWS operations requires locally configured credentials.
Agent Skills for AWS
This directory contains agent skills — curated packages of instructions and reference materials that help AI coding agents complete AWS tasks effectively. We plan to release new and updated skills on a regular cadence.
Using skills
There are three ways to get skills:
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Install a plugin — If you installed a plugin (aws-core, aws-agents, or aws-data-analytics), the skills bundled with that plugin are already available to your agent.
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Install locally — Copy skill directories from this repository to your agent's skills location, or use
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills. -
Discover at runtime — Agents can search for and load skills on demand through the AWS MCP Server, without any local installation. Ask your agent: "Search for AWS skills related to databases."
To install skills locally, copy the skill directory to your agent's skills location:
| Agent | Global skills path | Project skills path |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | ~/.claude/skills/ | .claude/skills/ |
| Codex | ~/.codex/skills/ | .agents/skills/ |
| Cursor | ~/.cursor/skills/ | .cursor/skills/ |
| Kiro | ~/.kiro/skills/ | .kiro/skills/ |
| fx | ~/.fx/skills/ | .fx/skills/ |
Skill categories
Skills are organized into two categories: core and specialized.
Core skills
Core skills are bundled with the aws-core plugin and provide broad guidance across the most commonly used AWS services and development patterns. We recommend installing the aws-core plugin as your starting point if you're building and operating applications on AWS. It gives your agent foundational knowledge about service selection, architecture decisions, SDK usage, infrastructure-as-code, security, observability, and cost management.
Core skills cover:
- AWS SDK usage patterns (Python, JavaScript, Swift)
- Infrastructure as code (CDK, CloudFormation)
- Compute (serverless, containers)
- Security and identity (IAM)
- Observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail)
- Application integration (messaging, streaming)
- Cost management (Billing and Cost Management)
- Full-stack applictaion development (AWS Blocks)
- Generative AI (Bedrock)
- Databases (service selection and routing)
Specialized skills
Specialized skills offer service-specific guidance and detailed workflows for common tasks that agents struggle with. These go deeper than core skills — providing step-by-step procedures for specific operations like creating a data lake table, launching an EC2 instance with best practices, or troubleshooting EFS connectivity.
Install specialized skills when you're working in a specific domain and want your agent to follow AWS-recommended procedures rather than improvising from general knowledge.
Specialized skills are organized by AWS service category:
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