release-testing

A command for running automated user-acceptance tests, which check whether a product works as users expect, through an AWS DevOps Agent. It supports tests of either a website interface or an API, a programmatic service interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing a test profile, launching UI or API release tests, and obtaining the corresponding test report.
Why use it?
It provides a defined path for starting release tests and retrieving their reports, with an AWS command-line fallback when the remote server is unavailable.

Command

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 commands/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/release-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 813 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 $0.00020 $0.00813
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00081

Measured 2d ago against content hash fd07f77ce983, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-testing 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 2d 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/aws-agents-for-devsecops/commands/release-testing.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read and follow the running-release-tests skill for full execution details.

Step 0 — Choose your execution path (DO THIS FIRST)

Check your available tools. Do you have ALL of these tools?

  • aws_devops_agent__create_release_testing_job
  • aws_devops_agent__get_task
  • aws_devops_agent__list_journal_records
  • aws_devops_agent__get_release_ui_testing_report
  • aws_devops_agent__get_release_api_testing_report

These tools are NOT deferred/lazy-loaded — if they do not appear in your tool list, they are unavailable. Do NOT search for them via ToolSearch.

  • YES (all present) → Use the "Remote Server" path (steps 4-8 below)
  • NO → Tell the user: "Remote server not configured." Then prompt the user with instructions from the setup-devops-agent skill if they intend to set up the connection. If not, mention that you are "proceeding with the AWS CLI fallback." Then use the Fallback (CLI) path below.

Steps 1-3 — Common to both paths (see skill: "Gathering test parameters")

  1. If $ARGUMENTS contains a test profile ID (e.g., ki-12345), use it directly.
  2. If $ARGUMENTS is empty, ask the user which test profile to use.
  3. Ask if the user has a specific test requirement or focus area.

Steps 4-8 — Remote Server path (see skill: "Core workflow")

  1. Call aws_devops_agent__create_release_testing_job(test_profile_id="...", webhook_event_message="...").
  2. Tell the user tests take 10+ minutes and you'll keep them posted.
  3. Poll aws_devops_agent__get_task(task_id=TASK_ID) every 30s.
  4. Stream progress via aws_devops_agent__list_journal_records(execution_id=EXEC_ID, order="ASC").
  5. On COMPLETED: call aws_devops_agent__get_release_ui_testing_report(execution_id=EXEC_ID) (UI) or aws_devops_agent__get_release_api_testing_report(execution_id=EXEC_ID) (API), and save to file.

Steps 9-12 — Fallback (CLI) path

Use this path when the remote server tools are unavailable.

  1. List agent spaces with aws devops-agent list-agent-spaces --region us-east-1 and ask the user which one to use.
  2. Start the job:

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 2d ago First seen · 81 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A fd07f77ce983

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-testing is a command published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,498 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 813 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.