aws-core

An AWS development add-on for building, deploying, and running applications on Amazon Web Services, a cloud platform. It covers infrastructure-as-code, which means describing cloud resources in code, plus common AWS services, databases, monitoring, messaging, software libraries, and costs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create AWS infrastructure with CDK or CloudFormation, build serverless and container applications, use services such as Lambda and Bedrock, choose databases, add monitoring and messaging, use AWS SDKs, and review cloud costs.
Why use it?
It brings guidance for many AWS tasks into one place, reducing the need to look up separate instructions for infrastructure, services, operations, and billing.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/aws-core
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

aws-core 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 yesterday.

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-core/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 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.

{
  "author": {
    "name": "Amazon Web Services"
  },
  "description": "Build, deploy, and operate applications on AWS. Skills to author infrastructure-as-code (CDK, CloudFormation), use core services (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, ECS/Fargate, ECR, IAM, Amazon Bedrock with Knowledge Bases and Guardrails, AWS Blocks), select and operate databases across relational, key-value, document, wide-column, graph, time-series, and in-memory engines (Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL, Aurora DSQL, RDS, Oracle Database@AWS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Keyspaces, Neptune, Timestream, ElastiCache, and MemoryDB), and complete common tasks across observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail, ADOT), messaging and streaming (SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis, MSK), AWS SDKs (boto3, JS v3, Swift), and cost optimization.",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws",
  "keywords": [
    "aws",
    "amazon",
    "amazon-web-services",
    "iam",
    "bedrock",
    "amazon-bedrock",
    "aws-blocks",
    "billing",
    "cost-explorer",
    "cost-optimization",
    "savings-plans",
    "compute-optimizer",
    "cdk",
    "aws-cdk",
    "cloudformation",
    "sam",
    "serverless",
    "lambda",
    "api-gateway",
    "step-functions",
    "eventbridge",
    "containers",
    "ecs",
    "fargate",
    "ecr",
    "messaging",
    "streaming",
    "sqs",
    "sns",
    "kinesis",
    "kinesis-firehose",
    "msk",
    "kafka",
    "flink",
    "amazon-mq",
    "observability",
    "cloudwatch",
    "logs-insights",
    "x-ray",
    "cloudtrail",
    "adot",
    "opentelemetry",
    "sdk",
    "aws-sdk",
    "boto3",
    "aws-sdk-js-v3",
    "aws-sdk-swift",
    "knowledge-bases",
    "rag",
    "guardrails",
    "opensearch",
    "opensearch-serverless",
    "amazon-opensearch-service",
    "cognito",
    "appsync",
    "dynamodb",
    "database",
    "databases",
    "relational-database",
    "aurora",
    "aurora-postgresql",
    "aurora-mysql",
    "aurora-dsql",
    "dsql",
    

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. yesterday First seen · 117 lines scan A 2fc44e5f9bfb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws-core is a plugin published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,477 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.