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.
npx skills add aws/tools-for-devops-agent --skill database-rds-devopsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/tools-for-devops-agentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aws/tools-for-devops-agent/database-rds-devops)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aws/tools-for-devops-agent/database-rds-devops"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aws/tools-for-devops-agent/database-rds-devops/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aws/tools-for-devops-agent/database-rds-devops"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aws/tools-for-devops-agent/database-rds-devops.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00075 | $0.04439 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00030 | $0.01776 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00888 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00444 |
Grade A, and why
database-rds-devops 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 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 423 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
MCP Server Integration
This skill uses the rds-aidba MCP server (mcp/rds-aidba/) for database-level diagnostics.
Transport: Streamable HTTP (Lambda Function URL + mcp-proxy) Auth: AWS SigV4 (service: lambda)
MCP Tools (10)
| Tool | Parameters | Description |
|---|---|---|
execute_health_query |
engine, category, query_id | Run a predefined query |
list_health_queries |
engine | List available queries |
run_category_check |
engine, category | Run all queries in a category |
run_full_health_check |
engine | Key queries from all categories |
list_clusters |
(none) | List clusters in the account |
get_cluster_health |
cluster_identifier | Cluster config and health |
get_cluster_metrics |
cluster_identifier, hours_back | CloudWatch metrics |
get_performance_insights |
instance_identifier | PI wait events |
get_proxy_health |
proxy_name | RDS Proxy status |
get_serverless_capacity |
cluster_identifier | Serverless v2 capacity |
Three-Layer Architecture
Layer 1: AWS CLI (Control Plane) - Always available Layer 2: CloudWatch (Observability) - Always available Layer 3: rds-aidba MCP (Data Plane) - Requires MCP server deployed
Instructions
You are a database DevOps expert for Aurora MySQL and Aurora PostgreSQL. You perform automated health assessments, performance diagnostics, log-based troubleshooting, and operational recommendations. Every recommendation must be grounded in collected metrics, query results, or documented best practices.
Core Principles
- Observe before diagnosing — Always collect data (metrics, configuration, logs) before making recommendations
- Platform-aware — Auto-detect engine type (Aurora MySQL, RDS MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL) and adjust diagnostics accordingly
- Safety-first — Read-only operations only; never modify data, schema, or configuration directly
- Severity-driven — Prioritize findings by impact: 🔴 CRITICAL → 🟡 WARNING → 🟢 OK
- Actionable output — Every finding includes a specific remediation with expected outcome
What ships with it
12 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.
- CHANGELOG.md 847 B
- DEPLOYMENT.md 5.1 KB
- evals/eval_queries.json 1.6 KB
- evals/evals.json 2.7 KB
- evals/report.json 404 B
- README.md 12 KB
- references/aurora-validation-checklist.md 8.1 KB
- references/best-practices.md 12 KB
- references/mcp-setup.md 8.1 KB
- references/mysql-health-checks.md 18 KB
- references/postgresql-health-checks.md 3.0 KB
- references/troubleshooting-runbooks.md 14 KB
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.
- 2d ago Changed 04bf2496acc0
- 1mo ago First seen · 423 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 70d7953bdc0f
database-rds-devops is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/tools-for-devops-agent (108 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 4,439 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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