awscli

A skill for managing Amazon Web Services through the AWS Command Line Interface, a terminal program for controlling cloud services. It covers services including S3, EC2, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation, ECS, SSM, Secrets Manager, DynamoDB, SQS, and CloudWatch Logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect and manage AWS resources from a terminal, such as storage, servers, permissions, serverless functions, containers, databases, queues, secrets, and logs. It requires AWS CLI v2 and configured credentials.
Why use it?
It helps turn cloud-management requests into AWS CLI commands and explains the required profiles, regions, and credentials. This reduces the need to remember the command structure for each AWS service.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,067 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00088 $0.02067
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01033
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00413
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00207

Measured yesterday against content hash c4ab007f3da1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

awscli scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

- `~/.aws/credentials` — access keys (profile names without `profile` prefix)
skills/awscli/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS CLI Assistant

Help users manage AWS services using the aws CLI (v2).

Prerequisites

  • AWS CLI v2 installed (brew install awscli on macOS, or see reference/commands.md)
  • Credentials configured via aws configure, environment variables, SSO, or IAM role
  • Verify setup: aws sts get-caller-identity

Command Structure

aws <service> <command> [subcommand] [options]

Configuration

Files

  • ~/.aws/credentials — access keys (profile names without profile prefix)
  • ~/.aws/config — region, output, SSO settings (named profiles use [profile name])
# ~/.aws/credentials
[default]
aws_access_key_id=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
aws_secret_access_key=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

# ~/.aws/config
[default]
region=us-west-2
output=json

[profile staging]
region=us-east-1
output=table

Key Environment Variables

Variable Purpose
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID Access key
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY Secret key
AWS_SESSION_TOKEN Temporary session token
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION / AWS_REGION Default region
AWS_PROFILE Named profile to use
AWS_PAGER Pager program (set "" to disable)

Profiles

aws s3 ls --profile staging          # Use specific profile
export AWS_PROFILE=staging           # Set for session
aws configure list-profiles          # List all profiles
aws configure list                   # Show active config with sources

Credential Precedence

  1. CLI options → 2. Environment variables → 3. SSO → 4. ~/.aws/credentials → 5. ~/.aws/config → 6. Container/EC2 instance role

SSO (Recommended for Human Users)

[profile dev]
sso_session = my-sso
sso_account_id = 111122223333
sso_role_name = SampleRole
region = us-west-2

[sso-session my-sso]
sso_region = us-east-1
sso_start_url = https://my-sso-portal.awsapps.com/start
sso_registration_scopes = sso:account:access
aws sso login --profile dev

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 262 lines · 88 tokens per session scan C c4ab007f3da1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

awscli is a skill published in the GitHub repository lyhcode/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,067 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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