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agent-advisor

An AWS planning assistant for AI agents, which are software systems that can carry out tasks using AI. It helps choose where an agent should run, plan a move for an existing workload, and build a working proof of concept.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare AWS runtimes, plan an AI-agent migration, or create an executable proof of concept.
Why use it?
Choosing among AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, EKS, or AgentCore can be difficult when team size, budget, workload, and experience differ. This tool adapts its questions and recommendation to those startup conditions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the aws-startup-advisor plugin — 9 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook, 4 MCP servers shipped together

16 yesterday A scan 560 tokens original Apache-2.0
View the source file awslabs/startups
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/startups/agent-advisor
Any agent
npx skills add awslabs/startups --skill agent-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/awslabs/startups

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install aws-startup-advisor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook, 4 MCP servers.

Per session 560 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,750 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 $0.00560 $0.03750
Opus 5 $0.00280 $0.01875
Sonnet 5 $0.00112 $0.00750
Haiku 4.5 $0.00056 $0.00375

Measured 3d ago against content hash b93a50d71c2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-advisor 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/anthropic_model_recommendation.py, scripts/build_diagram.py, scripts/model_recommendation.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.

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.

advisor/plugins/aws-startup-advisor/skills/agent-advisor/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Agent Advisor

Helps startups decide how and where to run AI agents on AWS. Deterministic scoring recommends a runtime; the conversation adapts to the user's technical background.

Definitions

  • "Load" = Read the file with the Read tool and follow it. Do not summarize or skip.
  • $RUN_DIR = the run directory under .agent-advisor/ (e.g. .agent-advisor/0630-1430/), created in Intake.
  • $PLUGIN = ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} (the installed plugin root). On Claude Code this token substitutes inline. If ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} does not resolve (some Cursor/Codex builds, or a literal ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} string showing up in a path error), fall back to the skill's own directory: this SKILL.md lives at <plugin>/skills/agent-advisor/SKILL.md, so the engine and its data are all inside this skill — scripts at ./scripts/..., runtime profiles at ./references/runtimes/..., and decision refs at ./references/decision-refs/... relative to it. Prefer ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/agent-advisor/...; use the relative fallback only when it fails to resolve.

Prerequisites

Phase Structure (frontmatter)

Phase, fragment, and assembler files carry a YAML frontmatter block that declares how each phase is composed — its inputs, triggers, fragments, assembler, artifacts, gates, and ordering. The execution contract is the vendored references/vendored/dsl/INTERPRETER.md: it defines every frontmatter key, the fragment/assembler model, the gate protocol (HANDOFF_OK / GATE_FAIL), and the interpreter loop. Load it first (once, at the start of a run), then execute each phase file's prose body. Elsewhere in this skill, INTERPRETER.md (without a path) refers to this loaded contract.

Execution

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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. 3d ago First seen · 189 lines · 560 tokens per session scan A b93a50d71c2d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository awslabs/startups (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 560 tokens to every session and 3,750 once invoked, about $0.0028 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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