AWS Samples AppMod Blueprints is a platform-engineering solution for modernizing applications and providing developer self-service on Amazon EKS. Organizations use it to explore application blueprints, GitOps workflows, developer portals, and progressive delivery through an associated workshop. The catalogue add-ons expose the repository’s platform-engineering workflows as agent skills and agents.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to aws-samples/appmod-blueprints. 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-samples/appmod-blueprints/main/.kiro/skills/eks-best-practices/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/appmod-blueprintsWrote 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/skills/aws-samples/appmod-blueprints/eks-best-practices)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aws-samples/appmod-blueprints/eks-best-practices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aws-samples/appmod-blueprints/eks-best-practices/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/skills/aws-samples/appmod-blueprints/eks-best-practices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aws-samples/appmod-blueprints/eks-best-practices.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 | $0.00205 | $0.04867 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00082 | $0.01947 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00041 | $0.00973 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00487 |
Grade A, and why
eks-best-practices 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 2mo ago.
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.
The source is not reproduced here
Licensed MIT-0
The repository is licensed MIT-0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.
What ships with it
17 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.
- references/argocd-patterns.md 18 KB
- references/autoscaling.md 18 KB
- references/cluster-upgrades.md 28 KB
- references/container-registry.md 23 KB
- references/cost-optimization.md 20 KB
- references/eks-auto-mode.md 7.1 KB
- references/karpenter.md 14 KB
- references/networking-ingress-dns.md 13 KB
- references/networking.md 22 KB
- references/observability.md 27 KB
- references/reliability-advanced.md 11 KB
- references/reliability-core.md 26 KB
- references/scalability.md 17 KB
- references/security-runtime-network.md 13 KB
- references/security-supply-chain.md 12 KB
- references/security.md 22 KB
- references/terraform-examples.md 23 KB
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 384 lines · 205 tokens per session scan A bb981bf522e2
eks-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws-samples/appmod-blueprints (123 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT-0. It adds 205 tokens to every session and 4,867 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
eks-best-practices compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| eks-best-practicesaws-samples/appmod-blueprints | Skill | 123 | yesterday | MIT-0 | A | 205 | Kiro |
| gke-compute-classesgoogle/skills | Skill | 22k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 83 | Claude Code, Codex |
| gke-reliabilitygoogle/skills | Skill | 22k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 85 | Claude Code, Codex |
| gke-workload-securitygoogle/skills | Skill | 22k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 171 | Claude Code, Codex |
| cloud-architectJeffallan/claude-skills | Skill | 12k | 7d ago | MIT | A | 71 | Claude Code |
| nemo-automodel-launcher-configNVIDIA/skills | Skill | 3.9k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 30 | Claude Code |
| azure-mgmt-botservice-dotnetmicrosoft/skills | Skill | 3.2k | yesterday | MIT | A | 78 | Claude Code |