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 rds-sqlservergit 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/rds-sqlserver)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/rds-sqlserver"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/rds-sqlserver/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/rds-sqlserver"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/rds-sqlserver.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector 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 | $0.00205 | $0.06005 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00082 | $0.02402 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00041 | $0.01201 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00600 |
Grade A, and why
rds-sqlserver 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 1mo 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 — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Safety guidance
This skill covers creating and modifying RDS for SQL Server resources when the user requests it. The agent MUST confirm the action with the user before executing. Do NOT execute any create or modify operation without explicit user confirmation (e.g., "yes", "proceed", "confirmed", "go ahead"). If the user has not confirmed, present the planned action and ask for approval.
Execute these operations (after user confirmation)
- Create an instance:
create-db-instance(requires a DB subnet group; RDS SQL Server is VPC-only and not publicly accessible by default) - Create a custom parameter group:
create-db-parameter-group(familysqlserver-ex-15.00,sqlserver-se-15.00, etc.) — needed to setrds.force_ssl=1among others - Create an option group:
create-option-group(for TDE, S3 integration, SQLServer Audit, Native Backup/Restore, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS) - Create an RDS Proxy:
create-db-proxy,register-db-proxy-targets(for IAM DB auth in front of SQL Server — see the rds-proxy reference) - Create an AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory for Windows auth:
create-directory(then associate viamodify-db-instance --domain) - Create a Secrets Manager secret with rotation:
create-secret,rotate-secret --rotation-rules AutomaticallyAfterDays=N - Change backup retention, deletion protection, log exports:
modify-db-instance --backup-retention-period/--deletion-protection/--cloudwatch-logs-export-configuration - Attach/detach parameter group or option group:
modify-db-instance --db-parameter-group-name / --option-group-name - Tag resources:
add-tags-to-resource,remove-tags-from-resource
Resource tagging (always apply on resource creation)
When creating any RDS for SQL Server resource (create-db-instance, create-db-parameter-group, create-option-group, create-db-proxy, create-secret for RDS credentials, create-directory for Windows auth), ALWAYS include these tags using the RDS list-of-records --tags syntax (AWS Directory Service and Secrets Manager use the same shape):
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/ad-kerberos.md 7.9 KB
- references/connection-auth.md 7.6 KB
- references/dotnet.md 6.1 KB
- references/ec2-vpc.md 4.9 KB
- references/ecs-fargate-vpc.md 6.8 KB
- references/encryption.md 7.1 KB
- references/java.md 5.6 KB
- references/lambda-vpc.md 7.6 KB
- references/networking.md 7.8 KB
- references/nodejs.md 6.3 KB
- references/python.md 4.9 KB
- references/rds-proxy.md 8.5 KB
- references/ssm-tunneling.md 6.3 KB
- references/troubleshooting.md 11 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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 273 lines · 205 tokens per session scan A 9f1a0114d098
rds-sqlserver 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 205 tokens to every session and 6,005 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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