support-cases

A process for investigating incidents by reviewing AWS Support cases, which are records of conversations with Amazon Web Services support. It searches current and past cases for similar symptoms and fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding related AWS incidents, reviewing support communications, comparing error patterns, and identifying previous remediation steps when the account and permissions allow it.
Why use it?
Earlier support cases may contain the cause or remedy for a recurring failure. Checking them can add useful context to an operational investigation.

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/tools-for-devops-agent/support-cases
Any agent
npx skills add aws/tools-for-devops-agent --skill support-cases
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/tools-for-devops-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 132 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,904 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00132 $0.01904
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00952
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00190

Measured 2d ago against content hash 403acdf01d25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

support-cases 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.

skills/support-cases/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Support Case Review

Use this skill when investigating an incident and you need to review AWS Support cases — either the current case associated with the incident or historical cases that may contain relevant context, similar symptoms, or proven remediation steps.

When to Use This Skill

  • An active incident shares symptoms with previously resolved issues.
  • You need to check if a similar support case was filed in the past 24 months.
  • You want to correlate the current incident with known AWS service events.
  • You need to retrieve communications and resolution details from a prior case.
  • You want to identify recurring patterns across multiple support cases.

Prerequisites

  • The AWS account must have a Business Support+, Enterprise Support, or Unified Operations plan (required for the AWS Support API).
  • The agent must have permissions to call support:DescribeCases and support:DescribeCommunications in the target account.
  • Support case data is available for 24 months after creation. Cases older than 24 months cannot be retrieved via the API.

Step 1: Identify the Current Incident Context

Before searching support cases, gather key details from the current incident:

  1. Affected AWS services (e.g., EC2, RDS, Lambda, ELB).
  2. Error messages or error codes observed in logs or alarms.
  3. Timeframe of the incident (start time, duration).
  4. Affected resources (instance IDs, ARNs, endpoint names).
  5. Symptoms (latency spikes, 5xx errors, connection timeouts, throttling).

Use these details as search criteria when filtering support cases.


Use the AWS Support API to retrieve cases that may be relevant.

Retrieve all recent cases (open and resolved)

aws support describe-cases \
  --include-resolved-cases \
  --include-communications \
  --after-time "<ISO-8601-start>" \
  --before-time "<ISO-8601-end>" \
  --language "en"

Filter by specific case IDs (if known)

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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. 2d ago First seen · 203 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A 403acdf01d25

Subscribe to this mod's changes

support-cases is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/tools-for-devops-agent (40 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 1,904 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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