Getting it into your agent
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npx agentmods add skills/awslabs/startups/knowledge-base-for-startupsnpx skills add awslabs/startups --skill knowledge-base-for-startupsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/awslabs/startupsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00172 | $0.02193 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00086 | $0.01097 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00439 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00219 |
Grade A, and why
knowledge-base-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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AWS Startup Advisor — Knowledge Base
Reference content from aws.amazon.com/startups for AWS Activate programs, credits, partner offers, sample build architectures, and a large learn-article corpus covering technical guides, business strategy, and real-world case studies.
Last updated: 2026-07-22
Where to start
New-to-AWS-Startups questions → open references/home.md first. It's the landing-page overview: the Activate pitch, how to join, the top-level programs (credits, accelerators, solutions), and the ~350,000-startups context. Good starting point for broad "how does AWS help startups" questions.
Searchable indexes — use these when the user asks for a specific topic or example
Three files are indexes, not articles. They have a Keywords column — filter by keyword first, then open the linked detail file.
- references/learn.md — hundreds of learn articles across a dozen categories (genai, general, getting-started, architecture, business-growth, case-studies, cost-optimization, security, and more). Each row: title, one-line summary, keywords, link into
references/learn/<category>/<slug>.md. - references/offers.md — AWS Activate partner offers with keywords + links into
references/offers/<slug>.md. For the latest authoritative list, direct the user to<https://aws.amazon.com/startups/offers>. - references/build.md — sample architectures and solution guides. Two sub-sections:
- Publicly-viewable solutions link to local
references/build/<slug>.mdwith the Overview, AWS services used, and a primary Get-Started link (workshop URL or GitHub sample). - Sign-in required entries are gated. Recommend them by title + keywords and hand over the Live URL: "There's a Build sample that might be useful — please sign in to view it at [URL]."
- Publicly-viewable solutions link to local
Reference pages — full-topic content, read directly
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.
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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.
- 4d ago First seen · 104 lines · 172 tokens per session scan A 3b544674fac2
knowledge-base-for-startups is a skill published in the GitHub repository awslabs/startups (16 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 172 tokens to every session and 2,193 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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