aws-cli

aws-cli is a skill for Claude Code from georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault. It costs 110 tokens per session (2,656 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A safety-focused command-line interface for managing Amazon Web Services, a cloud platform that provides servers, storage, databases, and other services. It checks AWS commands before running them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect and manage AWS resources, deploy infrastructure, view logs and costs, configure access, and debug service calls.
Why use it?
Incorrect AWS commands can affect production systems, delete data, or create unexpected costs. The checks help identify the account, region, and risk before changes are made.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to inspect and manage AWS resources, deploy infrastructure, view logs and costs, configure access, and debug service calls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault/aws-cli
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault --skill aws-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,656 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 33
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 71
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00110 $0.02656
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01328
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00531
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00266

Measured 12d ago against content hash 435066cd1017, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-cli 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/aws_preflight.sh, scripts/aws_risk.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.

.claude/skills/aws-cli/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS CLI

Safety-first wrapper for AWS CLI v2 (aws). Every command is classified by risk tier BEFORE execution — full AWS control, w/ anything irreversible, breaking, or cost-incurring gated behind explicit AskUserQuestion confirmation. Blast radius on AWS is an entire company's infra: wrong account/region/flag can destroy data, break prod, or spend real money.

When to Use

  • Run/inspect any AWS service: EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, Route 53, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch, KMS, Secrets Manager, …
  • Audit resources, costs, security posture; tail logs; query w/ --query (JMESPath)
  • Deploy/update infra, manage env config, rotate creds, debug failing calls
  • Set up auth: profiles, IAM Identity Center (SSO), assume-role, MFA

Prerequisites (run once per session)

bash scripts/aws_preflight.sh [profile]

Reports version, profiles, region, and the active identity (sts get-caller-identity). NEVER run a write op w/o knowing which account+region you're pointed at. No profiles configured → guide setup via references/patterns.md (keys vs SSO).

Safety Model

Tier Action Required Examples
Safe Execute immediately describe-*, get-*, list-*, s3 ls, sts get-caller-identity, logs tail, any --dry-run
Write Inform user, then execute create-*, put-*, tag-*, lambda update-function-code, s3 cp/sync
Destructive AskUserQuestion BEFORE executing delete-*, terminate-instances, stop-*, run-instances (cost), modify-db-instance (downtime), change-resource-record-sets (live DNS), sg rules w/ 0.0.0.0/0
Forbidden Triple typed confirmation, NEVER auto-confirm close-account, IAM user/role deletion, kms schedule-key-deletion, delete-stack, s3 rb --force, delete-db-instance --skip-final-snapshot, snapshot/backup deletion, disabling CloudTrail/GuardDuty, purchases (RIs, Savings Plans, domains)

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 12d ago First seen · 162 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 435066cd1017

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault (28 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 2,656 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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