troubleshooting-efs

troubleshooting-efs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,623 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A troubleshooting guide for Amazon EFS, AWS's shared file storage service that can be mounted by compute instances and applications. It covers connection, permissions, performance, and encryption-related problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate mount failures, NFS timeouts, access-denied errors, low throughput, high latency, and exhausted burst credits.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether an EFS failure comes from missing NFS client tools, network rules, IAM or file permissions, slow storage, or encryption settings.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate mount failures, NFS timeouts, access-denied errors, low throughput, high latency, and exhausted burst credits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/troubleshooting-efs
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

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 troubleshooting-efs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,623 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 17 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 17 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 48
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
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    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
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    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 50
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
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 $0.00060 $0.01623
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00812
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00162

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0ebd005ff9b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

troubleshooting-efs scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

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sudo yum -y install amazon-efs-utils # preferred (includes mount helper + TLS)
skills/specialized-skills/storage-skills/troubleshooting-efs/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Troubleshooting EFS

Overview

Domain expertise for diagnosing and resolving Amazon EFS issues. Covers mount failures, NFS connectivity, IAM and POSIX permissions, throughput and performance, and encryption problems.

For authoritative guidance, see EFS Troubleshooting.

Common Tasks

0. Verify Dependencies

  • You MUST verify aws CLI is available
  • You MUST check if amazon-efs-utils or nfs-utils is installed on the instance
  • You MUST ONLY check for tool existence and version — MUST NOT execute destructive or mutating commands during verification
  • You MUST inform the user if any required tools are missing
  • You MUST respect the user's decision to abort if tools are unavailable
  • You SHOULD explain what each step does and why before executing it
  • You SHOULD display write commands and wait for user confirmation before executing

1. Classify the Issue

Symptom Category
"wrong fs type" or mount command fails A: Missing NFS Client
Connection timed out (hangs 2+ min) B: Network/Security Group
"access denied by server" C: IAM/Permissions
Slow throughput or high latency D: Performance
NFS server error on encrypted FS E: Encryption/KMS
DNS name resolution fails F: VPC DNS

2. Category A — Missing NFS Client

# Amazon Linux / RHEL / CentOS
sudo yum -y install amazon-efs-utils  # preferred (includes mount helper + TLS)
# OR
sudo yum -y install nfs-utils

# Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt-get install nfs-common

3. Category B — Network/Security Group

Connection timeout is the #1 EFS mount failure — almost always security groups.

  1. Verify mount target exists in the instance's AZ:
aws efs describe-mount-targets --file-system-id fs-ID --region REGION
  1. Verify security groups — check BOTH directions:
    • Mount target SG: aws ec2 describe-security-groups --group-ids sg-MT — MUST have inbound TCP 2049 from compute SG
    • Compute SG: MUST have outbound TCP 2049 to mount target SG
    • Quick fix: aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress --group-id sg-MT --protocol tcp --port 2049 --source-group sg-COMPUTE

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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. 6d ago First seen · 179 lines · 60 tokens per session scan B 0ebd005ff9b7

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troubleshooting-efs 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 60 tokens to every session and 1,623 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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