aws-cloudformation-lambda

aws-cloudformation-lambda is a skill for Claude Code from giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,761 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of AWS CloudFormation patterns for defining AWS Lambda functions and their surrounding infrastructure. Lambda runs code in response to events without requiring you to manage servers directly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create Lambda functions, connect them to services such as S3, SQS, DynamoDB, or Kinesis, add layers, integrate API Gateway, and monitor deployments.
Why use it?
It provides a defined workflow for validating templates, deploying stacks, checking deployment events, and verifying resources. It also covers common integration and startup concerns.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the developer-kit-aws plugin — 19 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create Lambda functions, connect them to services such as S3, SQS, DynamoDB, or Kinesis, add layers, integrate API Gateway, and monitor deployments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit/aws-cloudformation-lambda
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit --skill aws-cloudformation-lambda
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install developer-kit-aws, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,761 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00070 $0.02761
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.01104
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00552
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00276

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4bf2026728f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-cloudformation-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 1mo 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/developer-kit-aws/skills/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-lambda/SKILL.md · 408 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 408 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS CloudFormation Lambda Functions

Overview

Create production-ready Lambda functions using CloudFormation templates with validation and deployment workflows.

When to Use

  • Creating Lambda functions with CloudFormation
  • Configuring event sources (S3, SQS, DynamoDB, Kinesis)
  • Implementing Lambda layers and cold start optimization
  • Integrating Lambda with API Gateway
  • Deploying Lambda infrastructure with validation

Deployment Workflow

Always follow this deployment workflow:

1. Validate Template

aws cloudformation validate-template --template-body file://template.yaml

2. Deploy Stack

aws cloudformation deploy \
  --template-file template.yaml \
  --stack-name my-lambda-stack \
  --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM \
  --parameter-overrides Environment=prod

3. Monitor Stack Events

aws cloudformation describe-stack-events \
  --stack-name my-lambda-stack \
  --query 'StackEvents[?ResourceStatus==`CREATE_FAILED`||ResourceStatus==`UPDATE_FAILED`]'

4. Verify Resources

aws lambda get-function --function-name my-lambda-stack-function
aws cloudformation describe-stacks --stack-name my-lambda-stack \
  --query 'Stacks[0].StackStatus'

5. Rollback on Failure

aws cloudformation delete-stack --stack-name my-lambda-stack
aws logs describe-log-groups --log-group-name-prefix "/aws/lambda/my-lambda"

Instructions

Follow these steps to create Lambda functions with CloudFormation:

1. Define Lambda Function Parameters

Specify runtime, memory, timeout, and environment variables:

Parameters:
  FunctionMemory:
    Type: Number
    Default: 256
    AllowedValues:
      - 128
      - 256
      - 512
      - 1024
      - 2048
    Description: Lambda function memory in MB

  FunctionTimeout:
    Type: Number
    Default: 30
    MinValue: 1
    MaxValue: 900
    Description: Function timeout in seconds

  Runtime:
    Type: String
    Default: nodejs20.x
    AllowedValues:
      - nodejs20.x
      - python3.11
      - java21
      - dotnet8
      - go1.x
    Description: Lambda runtime environment

Read the full file on GitHub · 408 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 1mo ago First seen · 408 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 4bf2026728f5

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aws-cloudformation-lambda is a skill published in the GitHub repository giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit (359 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,761 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.