eks-recon

eks-recon is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aws-samples/appmod-blueprints. It costs 197 tokens per session (4,595 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT-0.

A reconnaissance guide for Amazon EKS, AWS's managed service for running Kubernetes clusters. It discovers how a cluster runs workloads, how it is managed, and which add-ons, networking, security, and monitoring it uses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify compute strategies, infrastructure-as-code tools, deployment pipelines, add-ons, networking, security, and observability.
Why use it?
It creates an inventory of the existing environment before planning changes or diagnosing its setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

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.

aws-samples/appmod-blueprints · 103 stars · on GitHub

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-samples/appmod-blueprints/eks-recon
Any agent
npx skills add aws-samples/appmod-blueprints --skill eks-recon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/appmod-blueprints

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 197 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,595 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00197 $0.04595
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.02298
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00919
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00460

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8d8c42e57dca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

eks-recon scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Reaches for credential filesmediumPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

**IMPORTANT:** Never give up after checking only environment variables. AWS credentials can come from `~/.aws/credentials`, `~/.aws/config`, instance metadata, or ECS task roles — none of which appear in `env | grep AWS_

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

.kiro/skills/eks-recon/SKILL.md · 436 lines

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.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 436 lines · 197 tokens per session scan B 8d8c42e57dca

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eks-recon is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws-samples/appmod-blueprints (103 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT-0. It adds 197 tokens to every session and 4,595 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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