sqs-queue-auditor

sqs-queue-auditor is a skill for Claude Code from anyshift-io/sre-skills. It costs 196 tokens per session (3,124 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A configuration checker for one Amazon SQS queue, a managed service that stores messages until software processes them. It examines the queue and its dead-letter queue, where failed messages can be sent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a queue before deployment, investigate missing or duplicated messages, or check Terraform and CDK queue settings.
Why use it?
It helps find settings that can make messages disappear or be delivered again even when the console looks normal.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sre-skills plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a queue before deployment, investigate missing or duplicated messages, or check Terraform and CDK queue settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anyshift-io/sre-skills/sqs-queue-auditor
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.

Any agent
npx skills add anyshift-io/sre-skills --skill sqs-queue-auditor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anyshift-io/sre-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sre-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 196 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,124 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00196 $0.03124
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.01562
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00625
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00312

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7e7c81c83f9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sqs-queue-auditor 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 12 executable files (tests/_audit.py, tests/_replay.py, tests/eval/queues.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/sqs-queue-auditor/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

sqs-queue-auditor

Configuration-audit skill for a single AWS SQS queue. Takes the GetQueueAttributes output for one queue, applies the judgment a senior engineer applies to that one source (the thresholds, the known-bad combinations, the one arithmetic relationship that turns a correct-looking config into silent message loss), and returns a ranked list of findings with recommendations. Then it names exactly where a single queue's configuration stops being able to answer the question.

When to invoke

  • An agent is asked to review, harden, or sanity-check an SQS queue before or after it ships.
  • Messages are going missing or being processed twice and nobody can see why from the console.
  • A dead-letter queue is configured but empty during an incident, and the question is whether it is actually wired to catch what is failing.
  • A queue is being added to a Terraform module or a CDK stack and the config should be checked against the known-bad combinations before apply.

What this skill reads, and what it does not

It reads the static configuration of one queue, plus the attributes of the dead-letter queue that queue's own RedrivePolicy points at. Both are SQS control-plane reads (GetQueueAttributes). That is the entire input. The audit is correct and complete for what a queue's configuration can tell you, and it is explicit about the rest:

  • It does not read CloudWatch. Live behaviour (redrive volume, age of the oldest message, in-flight count, empty-receive rate) is a time-series, not an attribute.
  • It does not read the consumers. Whether the visibility timeout is actually long enough is a property of how long the consumer takes, which is not in the queue.
  • It does not read account IAM. The effective set of principals that can act on the queue is the union of the resource policy (visible) and every identity policy in the account (not visible here).
  • It does not read the producers. Whether the right services are writing to the queue, and whether anyone is draining the DLQ, needs the inventory on either side.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

42 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 140 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7e7c81c83f9b

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sqs-queue-auditor is a skill published in the GitHub repository anyshift-io/sre-skills (17 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 196 tokens to every session and 3,124 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.

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