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aws-transform

A guide for assessing and modernising software systems on AWS, Amazon’s cloud platform. It covers migrations, security and technical-debt analysis, and upgrades for several listed technologies.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps transform .NET Framework applications, COBOL mainframes, VMware virtual machines, and SQL Server databases, as well as upgrade Java, Python, Node.js, and AWS SDK versions.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right migration path before changing a codebase or infrastructure and identifies risks that could affect the work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

876 5d ago C scan 229 tokens original Apache-2.0
View the source file awslabs/agent-plugins
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/aws-transform
Any agent
npx skills add awslabs/agent-plugins --skill aws-transform
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/awslabs/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 229 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,359 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 4 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 $0.00229 $0.07359
Opus 5 $0.00114 $0.03680
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.01472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00736

Measured yesterday against content hash 678187448848, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

aws-transform scanned grade C with 4 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify-traceability.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Subtle steeringlowPrompt injection

Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.

**Remote analysis has THREE compute modes** (`atx ct remote analysis --mode <ec2|batch|aws-managed>`). `aws-managed` runs on the **AWS-managed fleet with NO customer infrastructure** — no VPC, no CloudFormation, no EC2/B

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Tells the agent never to refusemediumAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

- MUST NOT mix unrelated transformation goals in the same chat without warning. On every shift to a different goal, suggest the user start a new chat session (they start it themselves). Keep re-offers terse. If the user

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Downloads and executes remote codemediumSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- If the shell reports `atx: command not found`, install the AWS Transform CLI: `curl -fsSL https://transform-cli.awsstatic.com/install.sh | bash`, then restart the shell or source its profile.

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- If the shell reports `atx: command not found`, install the AWS Transform CLI: `curl -fsSL https://transform-cli.awsstatic.com/install.sh | bash`, then restart the shell or source its profile.
plugins/aws-transform/skills/aws-transform/SKILL.md · 400 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 400 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Transform

CRITICAL: Route Before Anything Else

STOP. Before reading files, analyzing code, or starting any workflow, identify the workload first, then route.

Step A: Identify the workload

Look for an explicit workload signal in the user's request — a named technology (.NET, VMware, SQL Server/Aurora/Oracle/MySQL, mainframe/COBOL), workload-specific terminology (Hyper-V, EC2 rehost, stored procs, CICS, JCL), or file/project signals already in the conversation. If no signal is present, treat the request as workload-unspecified.

Step B: Apply workload-specific routing

Workload-specific rules ALWAYS win over the keyword list in Step C. Do not let "analysis" or "tech debt" phrasing override these.

Workload Route
.NET Ask the user via AskUserQuestion: "For your .NET work, are you looking to modernize to .NET 8/10 (port the code, change targets), run an assessment for modernization (scope the work, identify blockers, plan the port), or analyze your repos for tech debt, security vulnerabilities, or CVEs?" → "Modernize" or "Assessment for modernization" → proceed to the Overview section (the .NET workload handles both). → "Analyze for tech debt / security / CVEs" → route to continuous modernization (see Step D).
VMware Proceed to the Overview section. NEVER route VMware requests to continuous modernization — even if the user uses words like "analyze", "assess", "find issues". VMware assessment is handled by the VMware workload agent, see vmware.
SQL / Database Proceed to the Overview section. NEVER route SQL/database requests to continuous modernization — SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and Aurora migrations are handled by the SQL workload agent, see sql.
Mainframe / COBOL Proceed to the Overview section. NEVER route mainframe requests to continuous modernization — COBOL/CICS/JCL transformations are handled by the mainframe workload agent, see mainframe.
Workload-unspecified Continue to Step C.

Read the full file on GitHub · 400 lines

Files

What ships with it

44 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. yesterday First seen · 400 lines · 229 tokens per session scan C 678187448848

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws-transform is a skill published in the GitHub repository awslabs/agent-plugins (876 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 229 tokens to every session and 7,359 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 4 findings (subtle steering, tells the agent never to refuse, downloads and executes remote code). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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