agents-get-started

agents-get-started is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. It costs 158 tokens per session (4,144 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating a new agent project on AWS AgentCore, from choosing a framework to scaffolding, deploying, and invoking the first agent. AgentCore is AWS’s environment for building and running AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting an AWS agent, choosing Strands, LangGraph, Google ADK, or OpenAI Agents, or continuing after running agentcore create. It covers first deployment and invocation, not debugging an existing setup.
Why use it?
It gives a developer starting from zero a path to a running project and helps choose between supported agent frameworks. It also checks that the required command-line tool is new enough.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the aws-agents plugin — 8 skills shipped together

About the project

Agent Toolkit for AWS is a collection of AWS-supported MCP servers, skills, plugins, commands, and hooks that help AI coding agents build, deploy, and manage applications on AWS. It is used by developers working with AWS services through agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Kiro. The catalogue entries are the toolkit's own agent extensions for AWS development and operations.

aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · 2,533 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/agent-toolkit-for-aws/agents-get-started
Any agent
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill agents-get-started
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/agents-get-started"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/agents-get-started.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 158 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,144 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00158 $0.04144
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.02072
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00829
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00414

Measured 5d ago against content hash fab2f8dbccae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agents-get-started scanned grade A 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

**Port the dev server binds to** (important if you're scripting `curl` calls or testing from another process):
plugins/aws-agents/skills/agents-get-started/SKILL.md · 339 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 339 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

get-started

Walk a developer from zero to a running agent on AWS.

When to use

  • Developer wants to build an agent on AWS and doesn't know where to start
  • Developer wants to create a new AgentCore project
  • Developer is choosing between frameworks (Strands, LangGraph, GoogleADK, OpenAI Agents)
  • Developer just ran agentcore create and wants to know what to do next

Do NOT use for:

  • Environment/prerequisite issues (CLI not found, credentials broken) → use agents-debug
  • Adding capabilities to an existing project (memory, tools, policies) → use agents-build or agents-connect
  • Migrating an existing Bedrock Agent → use agents-build (loads references/migrate.md)

Input

$ARGUMENTS can be:

  • A framework preference: "using LangGraph", "with Strands"
  • A protocol: "MCP server", "A2A"
  • A description of what the agent should do: "a customer support agent"
  • Empty — the skill will guide framework selection

Process

Step 0: Verify CLI version

agentcore --version

This skill requires v0.9.0 or later.

If the version is older:

Your AgentCore CLI is out of date (found vX.Y.Z, need v0.9.0+).

Offer to run the update: agentcore update. After the update completes, re-check the version to confirm it's ≥0.9.0 before continuing. Preserve any context the developer already provided (framework preference, project name, what they want to build) so they don't have to repeat themselves.

If agentcore is not found:

The AgentCore CLI isn't installed. Run npm install -g @aws/agentcore (requires Node.js 20+). If you're having trouble with installation, I can run the agents-debug skill (which loads references/doctor.md) to diagnose your environment.

Step 1: Determine intent — exploring or ready to create?

Before jumping into framework selection, figure out where the developer is:

Ask the developer: "Are you exploring options (comparing frameworks, understanding what AgentCore does) or ready to create a project?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 339 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. 5d ago First seen · 339 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A fab2f8dbccae

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agents-get-started is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,533 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 4,144 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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