amplify-workflow

A guide for building and deploying full-stack web and mobile apps with AWS Amplify Gen 2, using TypeScript code to define cloud resources. It covers sign-in, data, file storage, server functions, APIs, and AI features.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating backends with Amazon Cognito, AppSync, DynamoDB, S3, and functions, then integrating them with React, Next.js, Vue, and other supported frameworks.
Why use it?
It helps connect an application's frontend to managed AWS backend services without separately designing every authentication, database, storage, and deployment step.

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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/awslabs/agent-plugins/amplify-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add awslabs/agent-plugins --skill amplify-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/awslabs/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 214 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,843 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 $0.00214 $0.02843
Opus 5 $0.00107 $0.01422
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00569
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00284

Measured 3d ago against content hash f7cebb699538, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

amplify-workflow 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/aws-amplify/skills/amplify-workflow/SKILL.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Amplify Gen2

Build and deploy full-stack applications using AWS Amplify Gen2's TypeScript code-first approach. This skill covers backend resource creation, frontend integration across 8 frameworks, and deployment workflows.

Prerequisites

  • Node.js ^18.19.0 || ^20.6.0 || >=22 and npm
  • AWS credentials configured (aws sts get-caller-identity succeeds)
  • For sandbox: npx ampx --version returns a valid version
  • For mobile: Platform-specific tooling (Xcode, Android Studio, Flutter SDK)

Defaults & Assumptions

When the user does not specify a framework:

  • Web: You SHOULD default to React (Vite) and explain the choice.
  • Mobile: You MUST ask which platform the user wants (Flutter, Swift, Android, or React Native). There is no universal mobile default.
  • Neither specified: If the user says "build an app" without clarifying web vs. mobile, you MUST ask before proceeding.
  • Backend only: If only backend changes are requested and no frontend framework is mentioned, skip the frontend integration step entirely.

When the user does not specify tooling or strategy:

  • Package manager: You SHOULD default to npm unless the user specifies yarn or pnpm.
  • Language: You SHOULD default to TypeScript. Gen2 backends are TypeScript-only; frontends SHOULD follow the project's existing language.
  • Next.js: You SHOULD default to App Router unless the user specifies Pages Router.
  • React Native: Ask the user whether they use Expo or bare React Native CLI.
  • Auth: You MUST ask which login method the user wants (email/password, social login, SAML, passwordless, etc.). Do not assume a default.
  • Data authorization: default to publicApiKey (allow.publicApiKey()) — this is the starter template default. When auth is added, switch to owner-based (allow.owner()) with defaultAuthorizationMode: 'userPool'.

Quick Start — Route to the Right Reference

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 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. 3d ago First seen · 227 lines · 214 tokens per session scan A f7cebb699538

Subscribe to this mod's changes

amplify-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository awslabs/agent-plugins (876 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 214 tokens to every session and 2,843 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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