aws-cloudformation-vpc

aws-cloudformation-vpc is a skill for Claude Code from giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit. It costs 59 tokens per session (2,108 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating AWS Virtual Private Cloud foundations with CloudFormation. A VPC is an isolated network in AWS, and CloudFormation describes the network as reusable configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create public, private, or isolated subnets; connect internet, NAT, or private AWS-service access; and prepare networking for services such as ECS, EKS, Lambda, EC2, or RDS.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unclear subnet layouts, tangled routing, and duplicated network settings as the infrastructure grows. It also defines outputs that other infrastructure stacks can use.

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 public, private, or isolated subnets; connect internet, NAT, or private AWS-service access; and prepare networking for services such as ECS, EKS, Lambda, EC2, or RDS.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit --skill aws-cloudformation-vpc
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 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,108 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

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 $0.00059 $0.02108
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00843
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00422
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00211

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 23f8e915111c, 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-vpc 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-vpc/SKILL.md · 284 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 284 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS CloudFormation VPC Infrastructure

Overview

Build a VPC foundation with CloudFormation that stays readable, reusable, and safe to evolve. Provides a clear subnet and routing model with predictable connectivity for public and private workloads, plus outputs that downstream stacks can consume without duplicating network logic.

Use the references/ files for larger templates and extended service combinations.

When to Use

  • Creating a new VPC stack for an application or shared platform
  • Adding public and private subnets across one or more Availability Zones
  • Wiring internet access, NAT egress, or private endpoints
  • Exporting VPC, subnet, route table, and security-group-adjacent identifiers for other stacks
  • Preparing reusable infrastructure for ECS, EKS, Lambda, EC2, or RDS stacks

Instructions

1. Start with the address plan

Before writing resources, define:

  • VPC CIDR range
  • Number of Availability Zones
  • Public, private, and isolated subnet ranges
  • Which workloads need internet ingress, NAT egress, or only private AWS service access

This prevents route-table sprawl and painful subnet replacement later.

2. Build the core network resources in layers

Create the stack in this order:

  1. VPC and subnets
  2. Internet Gateway for public ingress and egress
  3. NAT gateways if private subnets need outbound internet access
  4. Route tables and subnet associations
  5. Optional VPC endpoints for private access to AWS services

Keep each layer easy to inspect in the template and avoid mixing unrelated application resources into the same stack.

3. Parameterize only the environment-dependent values

Useful parameters include:

  • Environment name
  • VPC CIDR and subnet CIDRs
  • Number of AZs or explicit subnet IDs in nested-stack scenarios
  • Flags for optional endpoints or NAT layout

Do not parameterize every route or tag unless it meaningfully changes between environments.

4. Export only what consumers really need

Typical outputs:

  • VPC ID
  • Public, private, and isolated subnet IDs
  • Route table IDs when downstream stacks must attach routes
  • Security boundaries or prefix-list references only when another stack consumes them

Read the full file on GitHub · 284 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. 1mo ago First seen · 284 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 23f8e915111c

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aws-cloudformation-vpc is a skill published in the GitHub repository giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit (360 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,108 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.