setup-security-agent

setup-security-agent is a skill for Claude Code from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. It costs 64 tokens per session (2,779 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup workflow for AWS Security Agent, a managed AWS service that checks source code for security issues. It prepares the agent workspace, permissions, storage, and local configuration needed for scans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before the first security scan or penetration test, or when checking whether the required AWS agent space, IAM role, S3 bucket, and workspace configuration are ready.
Why use it?
It removes the manual setup work that would otherwise prevent security scans from running in a new workspace.

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 before the first security scan or penetration test, or when checking whether the required AWS agent space, IAM role, S3 bucket, and workspace configuration are ready.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/setup-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 · 2,919 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill setup-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 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,779 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 10 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 10 Sept 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 $0.00064 $0.02779
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.01112
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00556
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00278

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2d35afd438ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-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 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.

plugins/aws-agents-for-devsecops/skills/setup-security-agent/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Security Agent — Setup

This skill handles ONE thing: making sure the workspace has a working agent space, IAM service role, and S3 bucket linked together. Scans and pentests live in separate skills and assume this is done.


Local state convention

All Security Agent skills share workspace-local state at .security-agent/:

  • config.json — { "agent_space_id": "as-...", "region": "us-east-1", "code_reviews": { "<abs_path>": "cr-..." } }. Account ID, role ARN, and bucket name are derived by convention. The code_reviews map lets scans reuse the same CodeReview for a workspace.
  • scans.json — array of { scan_id, code_review_id, job_id, agent_space_id, scan_type, title, started_at, status, path } (keep last 50)
  • pentests.json — same shape, for pentest jobs
  • .gitignore — contents * so this directory stays untracked
  • findings-{scan_id}.md — written by the scan skill after each scan completes

This skill's job is to populate config.json and create .gitignore.

Derived values (convention over config)

Other skills compute these on each invocation rather than reading them from config.json:

Value Convention
ACCOUNT aws sts get-caller-identity --query Account --output text
REGION config.region (default us-east-1)
service_role_arn arn:aws:iam::${ACCOUNT}:role/SecurityAgentScanRole
s3_bucket security-agent-scans-${ACCOUNT}-${REGION}

Why minimal config: the role name and bucket name are deterministic, so storing them adds drift risk (a user re-creating a role manually would silently use a stale path). Only agent_space_id is stored because users may have multiple agent spaces and we don't want to ask which one every session.


Workflow

  1. Check existing state: read .security-agent/config.json if it exists.

  2. Caller identity + region:

    export ACCOUNT=$(aws sts get-caller-identity --query Account --output text)
    export REGION="${AWS_REGION:-us-east-1}"
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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. 1mo ago Changed · +38 lines 2d35afd438ef
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 181 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A fb23ccf19f89

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setup-security-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,919 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,779 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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