migrate-to-msk

migrate-to-msk is a skill for Claude Code from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. It costs 215 tokens per session (3,157 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A migration toolkit for moving self-managed Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK Express, AWS's managed Kafka service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inventory a Kafka cluster, assess whether it fits MSK Express, and produce a target migration specification.
Why use it?
It helps uncover compatibility issues before migration by examining brokers, topics, settings, authentication, quotas, and workload needs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the aws-data-analytics plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to inventory a Kafka cluster, assess whether it fits MSK Express, and produce a target migration specification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/migrate-to-msk
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 · 2,886 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 migrate-to-msk
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aws-data-analytics, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 215 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,157 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 warn 15 Oct 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Oct 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 $0.00215 $0.03157
Opus 5.5 $0.00086 $0.01263
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00631
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00316

Measured today against content hash 146ca7b67afc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

migrate-to-msk 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/compatibility.py, scripts/simulation_load_test_config.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-data-analytics/skills/migrate-to-msk/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Migrating to MSK Express

Overview

This skill helps customers migrate self-managed Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK Express. It provides three phases — Discovery, Assessment, and an optional Simulation — that can be run end-to-end or individually depending on the customer's needs.

Scope

This skill covers migrations from self-managed Apache Kafka (on-premises, EC2, Docker, Kubernetes, or other non-MSK deployments) to MSK Express. Migrations from MSK Standard (Provisioned) to MSK Express are out of scope.

Prerequisites

The AWS MCP server is recommended for documentation lookups and informational questions, but is not required. The assessment scripts are pure file processors with no AWS API calls.

Intent Routing

Route the customer's request based on their intent:

1. Open/exploratory question ("How do I migrate to MSK?")

Explain what this skill offers:

This skill helps you migrate to MSK Express in three phases:

Phase 1 — Discovery: Inventory your source Kafka cluster — brokers, topics, partition counts, configs, authentication, and workload metrics — plus two target decisions that drive cost: consumer rack affinity and any negotiated AWS pricing. I can discover this from IaC files (Terraform, CDK, Docker Compose, Kubernetes manifests), provide commands for you to run on your cluster, or you can provide the information manually. Output: migrate-to-msk-skill-artifacts/<cluster_name>/cluster-config.json.

Phase 2 — Assessment: Validate your cluster against MSK Express across 5 compatibility pillars (topology, Kafka version, configs, auth, quotas) and produce a target Express specification using the managing-amazon-msk Skill's pricing logic. I'll flag what Express will refuse vs what Express will silently convert. Outputs: compatibility.<cluster_name>.json, the pricing results in Markdown msk_sizing_pricing.md, and msk-sizing-inputs.<cluster_name>.json.

Phase 3 — Simulation: Spin up an MSK Express cluster with load-testing infrastructure to see how Express performs on your own workload, then run a vended test (End-to-End Latency or Broker Restart Under Load) and review the results on a CloudWatch dashboard.

Data replication: For migrating data to your Express cluster, you can use MSK Replicator. I can provide guidance on setup and configuration.

Where would you like to start? I can begin with discovery if you point me to your infrastructure code or describe your cluster, or jump to assessment if you already have a cluster-config.json file, or go straight to simulation if you already know your target Express configuration.

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. today Changed · +3 lines · +11 tokens per session 146ca7b67afc
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 257 lines · 204 tokens per session scan A dd6cf677e71b

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migrate-to-msk is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,886 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 215 tokens to every session and 3,157 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-03.

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