storing-and-querying-vectors

storing-and-querying-vectors is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. It costs 108 tokens per session (1,892 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for storing and searching vector embeddings in Amazon S3 Vectors. Embeddings are lists of numbers that represent the meaning of text or other data, allowing similarity searches for applications such as RAG, where an AI model retrieves relevant information before answering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create vector buckets and indexes, store embeddings, run similarity searches, support RAG, and plan migrations or multi-tenant storage.
Why use it?
It helps choose S3 Vectors when low-cost, long-term storage and occasional searches matter, and points to other services for high-volume or complex search needs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the aws-data-analytics plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create vector buckets and indexes, store embeddings, run similarity searches, support RAG, and plan migrations or multi-tenant storage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/storing-and-querying-vectors
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 · 2,579 stars · on GitHub

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.

Any agent
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill storing-and-querying-vectors
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install aws-data-analytics, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,892 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 14 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 May 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 $0.00108 $0.01892
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00946
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00189

Measured 7d ago against content hash c7b2d0947ba0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

storing-and-querying-vectors 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.

plugins/aws-data-analytics/skills/storing-and-querying-vectors/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Store and Query Vectors with Amazon S3 Vectors

Overview

Amazon S3 Vectors is a cost-effective AWS service for storing and querying vector embeddings at scale. Optimized for long-term storage with subsecond latency for cold queries, as low as 100ms for warm queries.

Decision Guide

  • Hundreds/thousands of sustained queries per second (QPS): Wrong tool. Recommend OpenSearch.
  • Hybrid search, aggregations, faceted search: Recommend OpenSearch with S3 Vectors as storage engine. For OpenSearch integration, search AWS docs for "Using S3 Vectors with OpenSearch Service".
  • Tiered (bulk + hot): S3 Vectors for storage + OpenSearch Serverless for real-time. See references/limits-and-patterns.md.
  • Cost-effective storage, infrequent queries, RAG: S3 Vectors is the right fit. Proceed.

For latest guidance, search AWS docs for "S3 Vectors best practices".

Common Tasks

Classify the request before starting:

  • Simple query: Existing index, skip to Step 6
  • Standard: You MUST list existing indexes first and suggest reusing if relevant. Else, new index + store vectors, follow Steps 2-6
  • Migration or multi-tenant: Read references/limits-and-patterns.md first, then Steps 2-6

You MUST execute commands using AWS MCP server tools when connected. Fall back to AWS CLI only if AWS MCP is unavailable. You MUST explain each step to the user before executing.

1. Verify Dependencies

Constraints:

  • You MUST check whether AWS MCP tools or AWS CLI is available and inform user if missing
  • You MUST confirm target AWS region

2. Create a Vector Bucket

You MUST confirm bucket name with user. Names: 3-63 chars, lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens only. Encryption (SSE-S3 default or SSE-KMS for compliance) is immutable after creation.

aws s3vectors create-vector-bucket \
  --vector-bucket-name <BUCKET_NAME>

Constraints:

  • You MUST explain encryption cannot be changed after creation
  • For SSE-KMS, KMS key policy MUST grant kms:GenerateDataKey and kms:Decrypt to the S3 Vectors service principal indexing.s3vectors.amazonaws.com. You MUST use full KMS key ARN (not alias). See references/limits-and-patterns.md for command example.

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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. 7d ago First seen · 162 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A c7b2d0947ba0

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storing-and-querying-vectors is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,579 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,892 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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