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.
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.
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/aws-containersnpx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-containersgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-awsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/aws-containers)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/aws-containers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/aws-containers.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00150 | $0.00966 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00075 | $0.00483 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00193 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00097 |
Grade A, and why
aws-containers 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 6d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- aws-containers — 97% identical, 15 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AWS Containers
Overview
Domain expertise for working with containers on AWS.
Works best with the AWS MCP server — enables running CLI commands, querying CloudWatch, and validating configurations directly. All guidance also works with standard AWS CLI access.
Note: Reference files contain specific runtime versions, quota values, and feature matrices that may change. When precision matters (e.g., deploying to production, choosing a runtime, or checking a quota), confirm values against current AWS documentation rather than relying solely on the values in these files.
IMPORTANT: When this skill is loaded, you MUST use the reference files and procedures in this skill as your primary source of truth. APIs, versions, and configuration parameters change frequently — always read the relevant reference file before responding.
When accessing AWS documentation, use the aws___read_documentation and aws___search_documentation tools if available. Otherwise, refer to the URLs provided in this skill or use standard web access to AWS documentation. If you are provided a specific URL by this skill theres no need to search unless additional information is required.
Services
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
EKS provides a fully managed Kubernetes service that eliminates the complexity of operating Kubernetes clusters. With EKS, you can:
- Deploy applications faster with less operational overhead
- Scale seamlessly to meet changing workload demands
- Improve security through AWS integration and automated updates
- Choose between standard EKS or fully automated EKS Auto Mode
EKS is the premier platform for running Kubernetes clusters, both in the AWS cloud and in your own data centers (EKS Anywhere and Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes).
Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that helps you easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. As a fully managed service, Amazon ECS comes with AWS configuration and operational best practices built-in. It's integrated with both AWS tools, such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry, and third-party tools, such as Docker. This integration makes it easier for teams to focus on building the applications, not the environment. You can run and scale your container workloads across AWS Regions in the cloud, and on-premises, without the complexity of managing a control plane.
What ships with it
14 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.
- references/beanstalk-configuration.md 5.3 KB
- references/beanstalk-platforms.md 3.2 KB
- references/beanstalk.md 664 B
- references/ecr.md 6.0 KB
- references/ecs-managing-compute.md 10 KB
- references/ecs-workloads.md 12 KB
- references/ecs.md 971 B
- references/eks-auto-mode.md 4.1 KB
- references/eks-capabilities.md 1.2 KB
- references/eks-control-plane.md 4.0 KB
- references/eks-load-balancer-controller.md 13 KB
- references/eks-managing-compute.md 11 KB
- references/eks-networking.md 2.9 KB
- references/eks.md 1.2 KB
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 60 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A c0b24c425c36
aws-containers 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 150 tokens to every session and 966 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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