AWS Startups is an official AWS repository containing plugins, skills, tools, and other resources for people building startup products on Amazon Web Services. Its add-ons support startup-focused architecture, migration, and development work on AWS.
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 awslabs/startups --skill contextual-offers-for-startupsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/awslabs/startupsWrote 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/awslabs/startups/contextual-offers-for-startups)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/awslabs/startups/contextual-offers-for-startups"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/awslabs/startups/contextual-offers-for-startups/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/awslabs/startups/contextual-offers-for-startups"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/awslabs/startups/contextual-offers-for-startups.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00204 | $0.03507 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00082 | $0.01403 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00041 | $0.00701 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00351 |
Grade A, and why
contextual-offers-for-startups 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 22d 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.
This is a copy
88% identical to contextual-offers-for-startups — 11 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Contextual Offers for Startups
An offer layer that runs after another AWS Startup Advisor skill has produced a recommendation, migration plan, or build. It surfaces one genuinely relevant AWS Activate offer as optional context — never changing the technical advice, never pushing, always dismissible.
It is consulted by the recommendation-producing skills in this plugin:
architect-for-startups— architecture advice and recommendations.start-building-for-startups— discovery + scaffold/implementation.agent-advisor— agent runtime selection, agentic architecture, POC.gcp-to-aws,heroku-to-aws,llm-to-bedrock— migrations.
Each of those skills owns its recommendation end-to-end and, as a final step, consults this layer. This skill never runs on its own and never triggers on a user request by itself.
What this layer does (and does not)
- The recommendation, plan, or build is owned by the calling skill. This layer does not touch, re-rank, or influence it.
- This layer runs after that output is final: given what the founder is building or migrating and what was recommended, it decides whether one relevant Activate offer is worth appending as a quiet line.
- It never re-decides or nudges the technical advice. Offers are looked up only after the advice is final and are invisible to the recommendation logic.
Offer source (read live — do not snapshot)
Offer content is read live from the sibling knowledge-base-for-startups skill, so the catalog never drifts:
- Index:
../knowledge-base-for-startups/references/offers.md— the searchable table (Offer · Summary · Keywords), one row per offer, linking to a per-slug detail file. - Detail:
../knowledge-base-for-startups/references/offers/<slug>.md— full description, estimated value, eligibility, and the canonicalsource_url. Open at most one detail file, for the single offer you decide to surface. Do not speculatively load theoffers/tree. - Live authoritative list: https://aws.amazon.com/startups/offers.
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.
- 22d ago Changed · +6 lines e8e785503d0c
- 28d ago First seen · 143 lines · 204 tokens per session scan A ba2e61f6c5b0
contextual-offers-for-startups is a skill published in the GitHub repository awslabs/startups (24 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 204 tokens to every session and 3,507 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to contextual-offers-for-startups, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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