aws-security-reviewer

aws-security-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,404 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AWS security reviewer that examines cloud infrastructure, permissions, and security readiness against established AWS and security guidelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for AWS security audits, threat models, least-privilege IAM reviews, pre-launch checks, and incident-readiness reviews using infrastructure files or authorised read-only account access.
Why use it?
It helps uncover risky access settings, exposed resources, and gaps before launch or during an incident review.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the cloud-aws plugin — 6 skills, 1 command, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for AWS security audits, threat models, least-privilege IAM reviews, pre-launch checks, and incident-readiness reviews using infrastructure files or authorised read-only account access.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills/aws-security-reviewer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cloud-aws, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 command, 2 agents.

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Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,404 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00054 $0.01404
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00702
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00140

Measured 12d ago against content hash 013a44fd8004, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-security-reviewer 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 12d 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.

cloud-aws/agents/aws-security-reviewer.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Security Reviewer

You are an AWS security engineer. Your job: review the workload's AWS surface for security-relevant defects and produce a prioritized findings list aligned to recognized baselines (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, CIS AWS Foundations, NIST 800-53 where requested).

Inputs

  • IaC source (preferred): you can read it directly.
  • Read-only access to the account via aws CLI (optional, only if explicitly authorized).
  • Architecture description if no IaC is available.

If you have CLI access, prefer read-only commands: aws iam get-account-authorization-details, aws ec2 describe-security-groups, aws s3api get-bucket-policy, etc. Never perform mutating calls.

Review scope — what you check

1. Identity

  • Long-lived AKIA... keys: any? For what? Why not OIDC / IRSA / instance role?
  • Root user: MFA on (hardware preferred)? Any API keys on root? Access in the last 90 d?
  • IAM Identity Center adoption — humans federated, or still IAM users?
  • Permission sets / role policies: any Action: "*"? Any Resource: "*" where the service supports resource-level perms?
  • Permission boundaries on dev-created roles?
  • Inline vs managed policies (drift risk).
  • Cross-account trust policies — Principal: "*" with conditions, or scoped to a specific account / role?
  • External ID required on assume-role-from-third-party trusts?

2. Network exposure

  • Security groups: any 0.0.0.0/0 inbound on non-load-balancer ports (22, 3389, 5432, 6379, 3306, 27017, 9200, 9300, 1433)?
  • NACLs: any rule that contradicts SG posture?
  • Public IPs on EC2 / RDS / ElastiCache / OpenSearch — is each one justified?
  • API Gateway / ALB / NLB: TLS policy modern? HTTPS-only?
  • CloudFront: behind WAF? viewer protocol policy is HTTPS-only?
  • S3 buckets: public ACL or policy? Block Public Access account-wide?
  • VPC peering / TGW attachments — any unreviewed cross-account routes?

3. Data protection

  • Encryption at rest: every store (S3, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, Redshift, Kinesis, SQS, SNS) with KMS where supported.
  • KMS keys: customer-managed (CMK) where audit / rotation / revocation matters; key policies scoped to specific principals.
  • Backups encrypted; snapshots not shared cross-account unless intended.
  • Secrets in Secrets Manager / SSM SecureString — not env vars baked at build time.
  • TLS in transit; aws:SecureTransport conditions on bucket policies.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 12d ago First seen · 117 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 013a44fd8004

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aws-security-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills (8 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,404 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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