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 skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill pentesting-with-aws-security-agentgit 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.
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- Snyk pass
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 | $0.00085 | $0.01627 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00043 | $0.00813 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00325 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00163 |
Grade A, and why
pentesting-with-aws-security-agent 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AWS Security Agent — Penetration Test
This skill handles pentest setup, execution, and findings. Initial Security Agent setup (agent space, role, bucket) is handled by the setup-security-agent skill — if .security-agent/config.json is missing, the pentest workflow auto-runs setup inline first.
Pentests are slow (1-24 hours) and active — they probe a real running app. Always confirm the user is authorized to test the target before starting.
Resolving the values you need
The CLI examples below use placeholders. Resolve them at the start of every pentest:
| Placeholder | How to resolve |
|---|---|
<id> (agent space) |
config.agent_space_id |
<region> |
config.region (default us-east-1) |
<account> |
aws sts get-caller-identity --query Account --output text (cache for the rest of the turn) |
<role-arn> |
arn:aws:iam::<account>:role/SecurityAgentScanRole |
<td-id> |
targetDomainId returned by create-target-domain (cache under config.target_domains[<domain>]) |
<pentest-id> |
pentestId returned by create-pentest |
<pj-id> |
pentestJobId returned by start-pentest-job |
Pre-pentest checks
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Read
.security-agent/config.json. If missing → tell the user one line — "First pentest in this workspace — running setup first." — and run thesetup-security-agentworkflow inline before continuing. -
Verify agent space still exists:
aws securityagent batch-get-agent-spaces --agent-space-ids <id>If missing, clear
agent_space_idfromconfig.jsonand runsetup-security-agentagain. -
Resolve account and role ARN from the table above.
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Authorization check: ask the user "Do you own or have explicit permission to pentest
<target>?" if it's not obvious from context. Do not proceed without confirmation.
Workflow
1. Register target domain (one-time per domain)
aws securityagent create-target-domain --agent-space-id <id> \
--target-domain-name <domain> --verification-method HTTP_ROUTE
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 158 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 14ed122942f8
pentesting-with-aws-security-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,550 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,627 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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