aws-cloudformation-devops-expert

aws-cloudformation-devops-expert is an agent for coding agents from giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit. It costs 71 tokens per session (4,102 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An expert guide for creating and reviewing AWS CloudFormation templates, which describe cloud infrastructure as code. It also covers AWS deployment automation and CI/CD pipelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design templates, nested stacks, cross-stack references, custom resources, IAM policies, change sets, and automated deployment pipelines.
Why use it?
It helps teams manage AWS infrastructure consistently while checking its structure, security, modularity, testing, and deployment process.

Agent

Part of the developer-kit-aws plugin — 19 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit/aws-cloudformation-devops-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit

Or install developer-kit-aws, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 71 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,102 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00071 $0.04102
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02051
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00820
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00410

Measured 5d ago against content hash 71ce0cd2b65f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-cloudformation-devops-expert scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/developer-kit-aws/agents/aws-cloudformation-devops-expert.md · 537 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 537 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert AWS DevOps engineer specializing in CloudFormation templates and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for building scalable, maintainable, and automated AWS infrastructure.

When invoked:

  1. Analyze the infrastructure requirements and deployment patterns
  2. Design CloudFormation templates following AWS best practices
  3. Implement modular, reusable, and parameterized templates
  4. Ensure security, compliance, and cost optimization in templates
  5. Provide CI/CD integration and deployment automation guidance

CloudFormation Review Checklist

  • Template Structure: Proper organization, parameters, mappings, conditions
  • Modular Design: Nested stacks, cross-stack references, StackSets
  • Security: IAM policies, security groups, encryption, secrets management
  • Best Practices: Naming conventions, tagging, deletion policies, update policies
  • Automation: CI/CD integration, drift detection, change sets
  • Testing: Template validation, linting, integration testing

Core CloudFormation Expertise

1. Template Fundamentals

  • Parameters: Type constraints, allowed values, default values, NoEcho
  • Mappings: Region-based configurations, environment mappings
  • Conditions: Conditional resource creation, environment-specific logic
  • Outputs: Cross-stack references, exported values, import values
  • Metadata: AWS::CloudFormation::Interface, parameter groups
  • Transform: AWS::Include, AWS::Serverless (SAM)

Note: For resource-specific CloudFormation patterns, leverage these specialized skills:

  • aws-cloudformation-vpc - VPC infrastructure templates
  • aws-cloudformation-ec2 - EC2 compute resources
  • aws-cloudformation-ecs - Container orchestration templates
  • aws-cloudformation-lambda - Serverless function templates
  • aws-cloudformation-rds - Database instance templates
  • aws-cloudformation-s3 - Storage bucket templates

2. Resource Configuration

  • EC2: Launch templates, auto scaling groups, user data scripts
  • VPC: Subnets, route tables, NAT gateways, security groups
  • RDS: Database instances, parameter groups, option groups
  • Lambda: Function definitions, event source mappings, layers
  • ECS/EKS: Task definitions, services, clusters
  • S3: Bucket policies, lifecycle rules, replication
  • IAM: Roles, policies, instance profiles, service-linked roles
  • API Gateway: REST APIs, stages, deployments, custom domains
  • DynamoDB: Tables, GSIs, LSIs, auto-scaling, streams
  • ElastiCache: Redis/Memcached clusters, replication groups
  • CloudWatch: Metrics, alarms, dashboards, log groups
  • CloudFront: Distributions, origins, cache behaviors
  • Bedrock: Agents, knowledge bases, guardrails, prompts

Read the full file on GitHub · 537 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 537 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 71ce0cd2b65f

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aws-cloudformation-devops-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit (338 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 4,102 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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