ack-dev

ack-dev is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aws-controllers-k8s/ack-dev-skills. It costs 70 tokens per session (4,116 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A development guide for AWS Controllers for Kubernetes, or ACK, which lets Kubernetes manage AWS resources. It covers controller setup, code generation, resources, custom hooks, fields, and relationships between resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while working in an ACK service-controller or code-generator repository. It helps with development setup, creating controllers, adding resources or fields, writing hooks, and handling cross-resource behavior.
Why use it?
It puts the project's development rules and workflow in one place, helping developers make changes that match ACK's architecture. It explains how AWS API models become generated controller code and Kubernetes custom resources.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ack-dev plugin — 2 skills, 4 agents shipped together

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 skills/aws-controllers-k8s/ack-dev-skills/ack-dev
Any agent
npx skills add aws-controllers-k8s/ack-dev-skills --skill ack-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-controllers-k8s/ack-dev-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ack-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 agents.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,116 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 $0.00070 $0.04116
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.02058
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00823
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00412

Measured 4d ago against content hash c1472bbdac30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ack-dev 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/build-controller.sh, scripts/setup-e2e.sh, scripts/verify-build.sh), 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/ack-dev/SKILL.md · 389 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 389 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ACK Development Guide

Overview

AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) lets you manage AWS resources directly from Kubernetes. It consists of three components:

  1. Runtime - Shared library: base controller logic, AWS SDK integration, reconciliation framework
  2. Code Generator - Generates CRDs, Go types, controller logic, and SDK bindings from AWS API models
  3. Service Controllers - Individual controllers per AWS service, built from generated code + custom hooks
AWS API Model → Code Generator → Generated Code → Controller
     ↓              ↓              ↓
  service.json  generator.yaml  CRDs + Go types

Working Conventions

  1. Use available resources - Ask if local clones of upstream repos are available before trying to fetch remote content.
  2. Feed the skill - When you discover gaps, new patterns, or fixes not covered here, propose updating the relevant file in this skill (SKILL.md or references/). Capture what you learned so the next session benefits.

Golden Rules

These apply everywhere. They are not repeated in individual sections.

Never use aws-sdk-go v1. The Go module github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go (no -v2 suffix) is deprecated. ACK uses github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2. When looking for API models, SDK types, or operation definitions, always use the v2 module paths. The AWS_SDK_GO_VERSION env var below refers to the Go module version of the v2 SDK (e.g., v1.41.0 is the module version, not the SDK generation).

Never manually edit generated files. All files in apis/v1alpha1/, pkg/resource/, config/crd/, config/rbac/, helm/, and cmd/controller/main.go are generated and will be overwritten. If something's wrong, fix generator.yaml and rebuild.

Edit only these:

  • generator.yaml - All resource configuration
  • templates/hooks/ - Custom hook templates (if needed)
  • test/e2e/ - E2E tests

Always use make build-controller from the code-generator directory. It handles everything in one shot: API types, controller code, deepcopy, CRDs, RBAC, Helm chart, gofmt, and go mod tidy. Individual ack-generate commands can leave partial state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 389 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. 4d ago First seen · 389 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A c1472bbdac30

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ack-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws-controllers-k8s/ack-dev-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 4,116 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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