aws-ecs-docs

aws-ecs-docs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (1,284 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for Amazon ECS, AWS’s service for running and managing containers. Containers package an application with the files it needs to run.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for creating and deploying ECS tasks and services, configuring networking and permissions, scaling, logging, load balancing, and diagnosing stopped or unhealthy tasks.
Why use it?
It avoids mixing up ECS-specific instructions with Kubernetes patterns or other container systems. It points answers to the official ECS documentation.

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/cookiemonsterdev/agents-skills/aws-ecs-docs
Any agent
npx skills add cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills --skill aws-ecs-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,284 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 5.1 $0.00090 $0.01284
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00642
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00128

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1df5c19313a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-ecs-docs 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 5d 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.

docs-skills/aws-ecs-docs/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Amazon ECS questions are easy to answer from stale memory or Kubernetes patterns that do not apply to ECS task definitions and services. Use this skill to ground answers in the official Amazon ECS documentation and return the closest authoritative page instead of generic container orchestration advice.

When to Use

Use this skill when the request is about:

  • ECS concepts: clusters, task definitions, tasks, services, and capacity
  • Creating clusters, task definitions, and running tasks or services
  • Launch types: AWS Fargate, EC2, and ECS Managed Instances
  • Networking: awsvpc, bridge, host modes, security groups, and Service Connect
  • IAM roles: task execution role, task role, and permissions boundaries
  • Container images, ECR integration, and private registry authentication
  • Load balancing with ALB/NLB and service discovery (Cloud Map)
  • Auto scaling for services and capacity providers
  • ECS Exec, logging (awslogs, FireLens), and observability
  • ECS Anywhere and external instance registration
  • Blue/green and rolling deployments with CodeDeploy
  • Troubleshooting task placement, health checks, and stopped tasks

Do not use this skill for:

  • Kubernetes or EKS cluster operations. Use kubernetes-docs or aws-eks-docs instead.
  • Docker Engine or Compose without ECS context. Use docker-docs instead.
  • AWS CLI install or global CLI options. Use aws-cli-docs instead.
  • Lambda container image deployment. Use aws-lambda-docs for Lambda-specific constraints.
  • General IAM policy language. Use aws-iam-docs for IAM fundamentals.

Workflow

1. Classify the request

Decide which bucket the question belongs to before searching:

  • Getting started and core concepts
  • Task definitions and container definitions
  • Clusters, capacity, and launch types
  • Services, deployments, and scheduling
  • Networking and Service Connect
  • Security, IAM roles, and secrets
  • Storage, volumes, and EFS/EBS integration
  • Auto scaling and capacity providers
  • Logging, monitoring, and ECS Exec
  • ECS Anywhere and hybrid capacity
  • Troubleshooting stopped tasks and placement failures

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 5d ago First seen · 112 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 1df5c19313a3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws-ecs-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills (4 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,284 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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