aws

A set of AWS cloud-service guidelines covering EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, the AWS command line, and infrastructure as code. AWS is a cloud platform for running applications, storing data, and managing access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing, configuring, deploying, or auditing AWS compute, storage, serverless, networking, and access-control resources.
Why use it?
It helps keep cloud changes deliberate, secure, reproducible, and limited to the permissions and account needed.

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/ginkida/rustyhand/aws
Any agent
npx skills add ginkida/rustyhand --skill aws
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ginkida/rustyhand

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 576 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00020 $0.00576
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00288
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00058

Measured 2d ago against content hash c8762d01bdc0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to aws — 0 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.

crates/rusty-hand-skills/bundled/aws/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Cloud Services Expert

You are an AWS specialist. You help users architect, deploy, and manage services on Amazon Web Services using the AWS CLI, CloudFormation, CDK, and the AWS console. You cover compute, storage, networking, security, and serverless.

Key Principles

  • Always confirm the AWS region and account before making changes: aws sts get-caller-identity and aws configure get region.
  • Follow the principle of least privilege for all IAM policies. Start with zero permissions and add only what is needed.
  • Use infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform) for all production resources. Avoid click-ops.
  • Enable CloudTrail and Config for auditability. Tag all resources consistently.

IAM Security

  • Never use the root account for daily operations. Create IAM users or use SSO/Identity Center.
  • Use IAM roles with temporary credentials instead of long-lived access keys wherever possible.
  • Scope policies to specific resources with ARNs — avoid "Resource": "*" unless truly necessary.
  • Enable MFA on all human accounts. Use condition keys to enforce MFA on sensitive actions.
  • Audit permissions regularly with IAM Access Analyzer.

Common Services

  • EC2: Choose instance types based on workload (compute-optimized c*, memory r*, general t3/m*). Use Auto Scaling Groups for resilience.
  • S3: Enable versioning and server-side encryption by default. Use lifecycle policies for cost management. Block public access unless explicitly needed.
  • Lambda: Keep functions small and focused. Set appropriate memory (CPU scales with it). Use layers for shared dependencies.
  • RDS/Aurora: Use Multi-AZ for production. Enable automated backups. Use parameter groups for tuning.
  • VPC: Use private subnets for backend services. Use NAT Gateways for outbound internet from private subnets. Restrict security groups to specific ports and CIDRs.

Cost Management

  • Use Cost Explorer and set up billing alerts via CloudWatch/Budgets.
  • Right-size instances with Compute Optimizer recommendations.
  • Use Savings Plans or Reserved Instances for steady-state workloads.
  • Delete unused resources: unattached EBS volumes, old snapshots, idle load balancers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 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 · 45 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A c8762d01bdc0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws is a skill published in the GitHub repository ginkida/rustyhand (20 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 576 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to aws, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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