aws-expert

aws-expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience. It costs 52 tokens per session (976 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of safety checks for designing or reviewing workloads on AWS, Amazon’s cloud-computing platform. It focuses on access permissions, data boundaries, costs, and where data is stored.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing AWS infrastructure, especially systems using agents or Bedrock, AWS’s service for foundation models.
Why use it?
It helps avoid excessive permissions, uncontrolled spending, data-boundary mistakes, and regional compliance problems in AWS systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the join-the-team plugin — 21 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook shipped together

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/jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/aws-expert
Any agent
npx skills add jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience --skill aws-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install join-the-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 976 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 $0.00052 $0.00976
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00488
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00098

Measured 5d ago against content hash 82b4b848a556, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-expert 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.

skills/aws-expert/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Expert

The Well-Architected pillars are the floor, not the ceiling. On AWS, IAM and cost are where agent workloads blow up first.

This skill enforces the discipline that makes AWS workloads production-safe: identity, data boundaries, cost controls, and regional residency. It is not an AWS feature tour — it is a checklist of the things that cause incidents and compliance failures when skipped.

When to use

  • Designing any AWS infrastructure (new or modified)
  • Before deploying agents or LLM workloads to AWS (Bedrock, AgentCore, Strands)
  • When reviewing a CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform plan for an AWS workload
  • When a system spans multiple accounts, touches regulated data, or crosses regions

Procedure

  1. Identity and IAM — verify least-privilege for every role and human principal:

    • No wildcard Action: "*" with Resource: "*" on any role. Managed policies scoped to the specific function.
    • Roles over IAM users; IRSA for EKS, instance profiles for EC2. No long-lived access keys in workloads.
    • SCPs at the OU level deny sensitive services by default; permission boundaries on delegated admin.
    • CloudTrail enabled on all management and data-plane events, shipped to a log-archive account.
  2. Data boundaries — for every data store in the design:

    • What data classification does it hold (public / internal / confidential / regulated)?
    • S3 Block Public Access at account level; bucket policies explicit; KMS CMK where required.
    • Cross-account sharing only via explicit resource policy with external ID.
    • Tenant boundaries enforced at the data layer, not just the application layer.
  3. Data residency — for each resource:

    • Region allow-list enforced by SCP, not convention.
    • For Bedrock / LLM calls: regional endpoints; check cross-region inference profiles where residency matters.
  4. Cost controls — for every LLM, compute, or storage resource:

    • AWS Budgets alerts at 50%, 75%, 90%, 100%.
    • Bedrock invocation quotas/caps and rate limits set; unbounded agent loops are unbounded spend.
    • Autoscaling maximums set; Savings Plans / Spot evaluated where appropriate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 5d ago First seen · 75 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 82b4b848a556

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aws-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience (11 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 976 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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