remediating-with-aws-security-agent

remediating-with-aws-security-agent is a skill for Claude Code from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. It costs 164 tokens per session (2,796 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for retrieving AWS Security Agent findings and guiding their repair. AWS Security Agent reports verified risks from penetration tests, which simulate attacks, and code reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover available scans, export findings safely, rank the risks, and offer fixes for the most important vulnerabilities.
Why use it?
Security findings may contain exploit steps, secrets, or sensitive system details that should not enter source control. The workflow keeps exports in a protected, gitignored directory and orders discovery, export, triage, and remediation.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the aws-agents-for-devsecops plugin — 13 skills, 9 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to discover available scans, export findings safely, rank the risks, and offer fixes for the most important vulnerabilities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/remediating-with-aws-security-agent
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

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Any agent
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill remediating-with-aws-security-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aws-agents-for-devsecops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 9 commands, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 164 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,796 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 18 Jun 2026
  • Snyk warn 18 Jun 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 $0.00164 $0.02796
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.01398
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00559
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00280

Measured 10d ago against content hash 29d022569a02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

remediating-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 10d 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.

plugins/aws-agents-for-devsecops/skills/remediating-with-aws-security-agent/SKILL.md · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security Agent Remediation

AWS Security Agent is a frontier agent that runs on-demand penetration tests and code reviews against a customer's applications and reports verified security risks. This skill takes you from "I have findings somewhere in AWS" to "I'm actively fixing the most important ones," while keeping the sensitive exploit detail out of source control.

The flow has four stages, and they matter in order:

  1. Discover which scans exist and how the account is configured (live, read-only).
  2. Export the findings to a local gitignored directory.
  3. Triage the findings into a prioritized, human-readable plan.
  4. Remediate by offering to fix the highest-risk issues.

Why the ordering and the guardrails matter

Findings contain working attack scripts, reproduction steps, file paths, and sometimes leaked secrets or environment details. If that lands in a Git repo, a customer can accidentally commit and publish a step-by-step exploit for their own production system. So the non-negotiable rule is: findings are written only to .security-agent/, and that path is gitignored before anything is written.

Stage 1: Discover scans (live, read-only)

Find out what the account has. All commands are read-only list-* operations.

AWS Security Agent organizes data as a hierarchy — work down it:

Application (account + Region)
└── Agent Space        (workspace for design review, code review, and pentests)
    ├── Penetration test → Pentest job → Findings
    └── Code review      → Code review job → Findings

Run these to orient yourself and show the user what exists:

aws securityagent list-agent-spaces
aws securityagent list-pentests          --agent-space-id <as-...>
aws securityagent list-code-reviews      --agent-space-id <as-...>
aws securityagent list-pentest-jobs-for-pentest         --agent-space-id <as-...> --pentest-id <pt-...>
aws securityagent list-code-review-jobs-for-code-review --agent-space-id <as-...> --code-review-id <cr-...>

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 261 lines · 164 tokens per session scan A 29d022569a02

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remediating-with-aws-security-agent 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 164 tokens to every session and 2,796 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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