setup-devops-agent

A setup and troubleshooting guide for connecting the AWS DevOps Agent to an MCP configuration. MCP is a standard way for an agent to connect to external tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add the AWS DevOps Agent to supported configuration files, choose between SigV4 and bearer-token authentication, and verify connectivity.
Why use it?
It helps find missing or broken connection settings and checks whether the connection works. It avoids changing a setup that is already working unless requested.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/setup-devops-agent
Any agent
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill setup-devops-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,053 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00067 $0.03053
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01527
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00611
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00305

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8bfae5ad5bf5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

setup-devops-agent scanned grade D with 3 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 2d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- Linux: `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- User-specific local: ~/.claude/settings.local.json

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -w "\nHTTP_STATUS: %{http_code}" \
plugins/aws-agents-for-devsecops/skills/setup-devops-agent/SKILL.md · 295 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 295 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS DevOps Agent — Claude Setup

The instructions below are specifically for setting up the AWS DevOps Agent plugin for Claude applications. For other clients, use this as a reference, but adjust the instructions based on the client's specific requirements.

Step 0: Check if setup is needed

1/ Check if the "aws-devops-agent" MCP server is running. If it is, verify that it has a valid connection (see "Step 3: Verify connectivity").

If verification is successful, you should inform the user that the plugin is already setup using SigV4 or Bearer Token. Offer that you can switch the configuration to Bearer Token or SigV4, see "Step 2: Decide auth path" below for details.

If the user does not want to change their auth configuration, then you are DONE STOP HERE.

2/ Check for an MCP server config with a key "aws-devops-agent" in the following locations:

  • Plugin scoped: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/.mcp.json
  • Project-scoped: .mcp.json (in your project directory, version-controlled)
  • Project-specific: .claude/settings.local.json (in your project directory)
  • User-specific local: ~/.claude/settings.local.json
  • User-specific global: ~/.claude/settings.json
  • Main Claude.json: ~/.claude.json
  • Dedicated MCP file: ~/.claude/mcp_servers.json

Then:

  • If aws-devops-agent key exists AND the server is connected (tools are available, see "Step 3: Verify connectivity") → Inform the user: "DevOps Agent is already configured and connected."; If Bearer Token is used in the MCP config, suggest that you can alternatively setup the plugin to use SigV4 credentials for the AWS DevOps Agent (multiple agent spaces, admin tooling). If SigV4 credentials are used in the MCP config, suggest that you can alternatively setup the plugin to use Bearer Token credentials for the AWS DevOps Agent (single agent space).
  • If aws-devops-agent key exists but is failing → continue to "Step 1: Diagnose current state"
  • If aws-devops-agent key does NOT exist → continue to "Step 1: Diagnose current state"

Read the full file on GitHub · 295 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. 2d ago First seen · 295 lines · 67 tokens per session scan D 8bfae5ad5bf5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-devops-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,498 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 3,053 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (downloads and executes remote code, reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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