agents-deploy

agents-deploy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. It costs 122 tokens per session (1,932 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A deployment and troubleshooting guide for putting an agent on AWS, Amazon's cloud platform, using AgentCore.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for pre-flight checks, deployment previews, staging or production releases, failed-deployment diagnosis, rollbacks, version pinning, and canary releases.
Why use it?
It checks configuration and permissions before deployment and helps diagnose failed releases or safely return to an earlier version.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the aws-agents plugin — 8 skills 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/agent-toolkit-for-aws/agents-deploy
Any agent
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill agents-deploy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install aws-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,932 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 $0.00122 $0.01932
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.00966
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00386
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00193

Measured 4d ago against content hash 31f0800e3c31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agents-deploy 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.

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-agents/skills/agents-deploy/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

deploy

Deploy your AgentCore agent to AWS, or diagnose why a deploy failed.

When to use

  • You're ready to deploy and want to validate config first
  • agentcore deploy failed with an error
  • You want to preview what deploy will create without actually deploying
  • You want to deploy to a specific target (staging, production)
  • You need to roll back to a previous version, pin to a specific version, or set up canary deployments

Input

$ARGUMENTS is optional:

/agents-deploy                     # interactive — pre-flight check or diagnose failure
/agents-deploy preflight           # validate config and IAM before deploying
/agents-deploy diagnose            # diagnose a failed deploy (paste error or read logs)
/agents-deploy preview             # show what deploy will create without deploying
/agents-deploy rollback            # roll back to a previous version

Process

Step 0: Verify CLI version

Run agentcore --version. This skill requires v0.9.0 or later. If the version is older, tell the developer to run agentcore update before proceeding.

Step 1: Determine the situation

Read agentcore/agentcore.json and agentcore/aws-targets.json if they exist.

Ask (or infer from context):

"Are you:

  1. About to deploy and want to check everything first
  2. Dealing with a failed deploy — what error did you see?
  3. Needing to roll back or pin a specific version?"

If the developer needs versioning, rollback, or canary deployment, load references/versioning.md and follow its instructions.


Path A: Pre-flight validation

Run these checks before agentcore deploy:

Check 1: Validate config files

Show the developer this command to run:

agentcore validate

This catches malformed agentcore.json before CDK even starts.

Check 2: Verify region alignment

The most common deploy failure is a region mismatch. Show the developer these commands to verify:

# Your configured AWS region
aws configure get region

# The region in your deployment target
cat agentcore/aws-targets.json

# The account you're actually authenticated as
aws sts get-caller-identity

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 279 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 31f0800e3c31

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agents-deploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,518 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 1,932 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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