aws-architect

aws-architect is a skill for Claude Code from aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups. It costs 42 tokens per session (864 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT-0.

An AWS architecture design and review guide based on the Well-Architected Framework, AWS's guidance for evaluating reliable, secure, efficient, cost-conscious systems. It compares AWS services and design trade-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing new AWS infrastructure, reviewing existing architectures, comparing services, and assessing AWS architecture practices.
Why use it?
It helps identify weaknesses in a proposed or existing cloud design and make service choices with AWS best practices in mind.

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

Part of the aws-dev-toolkit plugin — 35 skills, 11 agents, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Designing new AWS infrastructure, reviewing existing architectures, comparing services, and assessing AWS architecture practices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups/aws-architect
About the project

Claude Code Plugin Marketplace for Startups on AWS is a collection of Claude Code plugins for teams building, migrating, or reviewing applications on AWS. Developers add the marketplace and install plugins that provide skills, sub-agents, and MCP servers. The catalogue entries are components of this marketplace.

aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups · 15 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.

Any agent
npx skills add aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups --skill aws-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aws-dev-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 11 agents, 3 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 864 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.
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 5.1 $0.00042 $0.00864
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00346
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00086

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 694affa63dd8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-architect 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.

plugins/aws-dev-toolkit/skills/aws-architect/SKILL.md · 49 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

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 694affa63dd8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups (15 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT-0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 864 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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