step-functions

step-functions is a skill for Claude Code from aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,363 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT-0.

Guidance for designing and building AWS Step Functions workflows. AWS Step Functions is an Amazon service for coordinating tasks and services through defined steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose between Standard and Express workflows and to implement processes that coordinate tasks, run work in parallel, retry failures, or recover from errors.
Why use it?
It helps structure multi-step processes, including parallel work, retries, error recovery, and saga patterns, where a failed step may need compensating actions.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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 Use it to choose between Standard and Express workflows and to implement processes that coordinate tasks, run work in parallel, retry failures, or recover from errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups/step-functions
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 step-functions
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 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,363 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 $0.00041 $0.02363
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00945
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00473
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00236

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f3eb316a75d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

step-functions 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/step-functions/SKILL.md · 198 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

2 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. 2mo ago First seen · 198 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A f3eb316a75d4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

step-functions 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 41 tokens to every session and 2,363 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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