trove-lambda

A set of conventions for AWS Lambda, a service that runs code without managing servers, together with AWS CDK infrastructure patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on Lambda handlers or CDK files, especially for event parsing, Powertools logging, request context, and infrastructure code.
Why use it?
It provides consistent ways to structure handlers, process SQS and SNS messages, and record useful request information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/bravew/trove/trove-lambda
Any agent
npx skills add bravew/trove --skill trove-lambda
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bravew/trove

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 630 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 $0.00052 $0.00630
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00315
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00063

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4b7696912fb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trove-lambda 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 2d 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.

plugins/trove-dev/.agents/skills/trove-lambda/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trove · v2026.7.4

Session Init

This skill ships Trove conventions. Prefer existing project patterns over generic best practices when they conflict.

AWS Lambda Conventions

Handler Structure

from aws_lambda_powertools import Logger
from aws_lambda_powertools.utilities.typing import LambdaContext

logger = Logger()

@logger.inject_lambda_context(log_event=True)
def handler(event: dict, context: LambdaContext) -> dict:
    records = parse_event(event)
    for record in records:
        process_record(record)
    return {"statusCode": 200}

SQS/SNS Event Parsing

def parse_sqs_event(event: dict) -> list[dict]:
    return [json.loads(record["body"]) for record in event["Records"]]

def parse_sns_via_sqs(event: dict) -> list[dict]:
    messages = []
    for record in event["Records"]:
        body = json.loads(record["body"])
        message = json.loads(body["Message"])
        messages.append(message)
    return messages

Logging

Follow the same logging rules as trove-python, plus:

  • Use @logger.inject_lambda_context(log_event=True) on handlers
  • Use logger.append_keys() for request-scoped context
  • Use logger.exception() in error handlers (captures stack trace for Sentry)

IPC Pattern (Backend Communication)

async def call_backend(endpoint: str, payload: dict) -> dict:
    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
        response = await client.post(
            f"{BACKEND_URL}/api/ipc/{endpoint}",
            json=payload,
            headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {IPC_TOKEN}"},
            timeout=30.0,
        )
        response.raise_for_status()
        return response.json()

CDK Patterns

  • One construct per Lambda function
  • Use PythonFunction from @aws-cdk/aws-lambda-python-alpha
  • Environment variables via CDK environment prop, secrets via Secrets Manager
  • Set memorySize, timeout, and reservedConcurrentExecutions

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 2d ago First seen · 85 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 4b7696912fb7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

trove-lambda is a skill published in the GitHub repository bravew/trove (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 630 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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