Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to aws/tools-for-devops-agent. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/tools-for-devops-agent/main/.kiro/steering/project-conventions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/tools-for-devops-agentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/aws/tools-for-devops-agent/project-conventions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/aws/tools-for-devops-agent/project-conventions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/aws/tools-for-devops-agent/project-conventions/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/aws/tools-for-devops-agent/project-conventions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/aws/tools-for-devops-agent/project-conventions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.02519 | $0.02519 |
| Opus 5 | $0.01260 | $0.01260 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00504 | $0.00504 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00252 | $0.00252 |
Grade A, and why
tools-for-devops-agent project-conventions.md 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 today.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Project Conventions
This repository consolidates open-source tools for AWS DevOps Agent — skills, custom agents, and MCP servers, plus supporting infrastructure templates. Follow these conventions when contributing. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full contribution workflow.
Key References
- Agent Skills spec — the open standard this project follows for skill structure
- AWS DevOps Agent Skills documentation — official AWS docs on creating and uploading skills
- AWS DevOps Agent custom agents documentation — official AWS docs on custom agents
- AGENTS.md specification — the open standard for custom agent definitions
- Model Context Protocol — the open standard for MCP servers
- Connecting MCP servers to DevOps Agent — official AWS docs on registering MCP servers
Repository Structure
tools-for-devops-agent/
├── README.md # Project overview with skills/agents/MCP tables
├── CONTRIBUTING.md # Contribution guidelines
├── llms.txt # Structured repo overview for AI tools
├── .gitignore # Root-level ignores
├── cloudformation/
│ └── devops-agent-skill-policies.yaml # IAM policies skills require
├── docs/ # GitHub Pages (mkdocs) documentation site
├── skills/
│ ├── .gitignore # Allowlist for DevOps Agent supported extensions only
│ └── <skill-name>/
│ ├── SKILL.md # Required: main skill instructions with frontmatter
│ ├── README.md # Skill documentation (purpose, prompts, upload instructions)
│ ├── CHANGELOG.md # Version history
│ ├── evals/ # Required: evaluation queries and benchmarks
│ ├── assets/ # Optional: images, diagrams, data files
│ └── references/ # Optional: supplementary reference docs
├── custom-agents/
│ └── <agent-name>/
│ ├── SYSTEM_PROMPT.md # Required: the agent's system prompt
│ ├── README.md # Agent documentation
│ └── CHANGELOG.md # Version history
└── mcp/
└── <server-name>/
├── README.md # Server documentation and deployment steps
└── ... # Server implementation and deployment assets
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.
- today Changed · +30 lines · +810 tokens per session 0d5a3843dba6
- 5d ago First seen · 151 lines · 1,709 tokens per session scan A 473d55113390
tools-for-devops-agent project-conventions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aws/tools-for-devops-agent (65 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,519 tokens to every session, about $0.0126 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 2026-09-10.
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