creating-api-gateway-stage

creating-api-gateway-stage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. It costs 53 tokens per session (271 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to creating an API Gateway stage, an environment-specific version of an API such as development, testing, or production. It configures logging, tracing, request limits, web-application firewall rules, and authorization.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and configure stages with CloudWatch logs, X-Ray tracing, throttling, AWS WAF protection, method settings, and authorization options.
Why use it?
It avoids leaving deployed APIs without useful monitoring, traffic limits, or security controls, and helps explain why logs or requests are not behaving as expected.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create and configure stages with CloudWatch logs, X-Ray tracing, throttling, AWS WAF protection, method settings, and authorization options.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/creating-api-gateway-stage
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 · 2,569 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/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill creating-api-gateway-stage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 271 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 17 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 17 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00053 $0.00271
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00135
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00027

Measured 6d ago against content hash c5c0f324d83b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-api-gateway-stage 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.

skills/specialized-skills/serverless-skills/creating-api-gateway-stage/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Creating an API Gateway Stage

Overview

Domain expertise for creating and configuring API Gateway stages with comprehensive logging, monitoring, security, and throttling controls. Covers CloudWatch logging setup, X-Ray tracing, WAF web ACL association, method-level configuration, and authorization options.

Create an API Gateway stage

To create a fully configured API Gateway stage with logging, throttling, WAF, and authorization, follow the procedure exactly. See API Gateway stage creation procedure.

Troubleshooting

CloudWatch logs not appearing

Verify the CloudWatch role permissions, log group existence, and that logging is enabled at both stage and method levels. See the full procedure for details.

Stage creation fails

Check REST API ID, deployment ID, IAM permissions, and stage naming conventions.

WAF blocking legitimate requests

Review WAF logs, adjust rules or add exceptions, and consider count mode for testing.

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. 6d ago First seen · 37 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A c5c0f324d83b

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creating-api-gateway-stage is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,569 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 271 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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