aws-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

aws-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from zxkane/aws-skills. It costs 993 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for developing and testing an AWS skills marketplace for Claude Code. A marketplace is a collection that packages and makes development add-ons available to users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand the repository structure, edit its AWS plugins, test skills locally, and start Claude Code with the correct automatic skill loading.
Why use it?
It explains where the repository’s plugins, skills, documentation, and local test links are located. This prevents changes from being made in the wrong part of the project.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

This is zxkane/aws-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on aws-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything aws-skills configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is ln -s ../../plugins/aws-common/skills/aws-mcp-setup skills/.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zxkane/aws-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zxkane/aws-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zxkane/aws-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

cd .claude && rm -rf skills && mkdir skills
CLAUDE.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Repository Overview

This is an AWS skills plugin marketplace for Claude Code. It contains 5 plugins that provide AWS development expertise through skills and MCP server integrations.

Architecture

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json    # Plugin marketplace definition (versions, MCP servers)
plugins/
├── aws-common/                    # Shared skills (aws-mcp-setup) - dependency for all others
├── aws-iac/                       # Infrastructure as code (CDK + SST)
├── aws-cost-ops/                  # Cost optimization & monitoring
├── serverless-eda/                # Serverless & event-driven patterns
└── aws-agentic-ai/                # Bedrock AgentCore for AI agents

Each plugin contains:

  • skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md - Main skill file with frontmatter config
  • skills/<skill-name>/references/ - Detailed reference documentation
  • Optional: scripts/, services/, cross-service/ directories

Testing Skills Locally

Skills are symlinked from .claude/skills/ for local development:

# Start Claude Code in this directory - skills auto-load
cd /data/git/agentic/aws-skills
claude

# Verify skills loaded
/skills
/context

Non-interactive testing:

claude -p "List all available skills in this project"
claude -p "Read the frontmatter of aws-cdk-development skill"

If symlinks break, recreate them:

cd .claude && rm -rf skills && mkdir skills
ln -s ../../plugins/aws-common/skills/aws-mcp-setup skills/
ln -s ../../plugins/aws-iac/skills/aws-cdk-development skills/
ln -s ../../plugins/aws-iac/skills/aws-sst-development skills/
ln -s ../../plugins/serverless-eda/skills/aws-serverless-eda skills/
ln -s ../../plugins/aws-agentic-ai/skills/aws-agentic-ai skills/
ln -s ../../plugins/aws-cost-ops/skills/aws-cost-operations skills/

Skill Frontmatter (Claude Code 2.1 Features)

Skills use these frontmatter fields for Claude Code 2.1:

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 9d ago First seen · 119 lines · 993 tokens per session scan C 06fab4fd9492

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aws-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zxkane/aws-skills (360 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 993 tokens to every session, about $0.0050 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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