AWS WAF Pillar Review

AWS WAF Pillar Review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from niels-emmer/myace. It costs 38 tokens per session (986 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for reviewing changes to AWS cloud infrastructure against six areas of the AWS Well-Architected Framework: operations, security, reliability, performance, cost, and sustainability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing new or materially changed AWS resources, including how they are deployed, monitored, secured, scaled, and paid for.
Why use it?
It helps identify infrastructure risks that may be missed when reviewing only whether the configuration works.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for aider; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Reviewing new or materially changed AWS resources, including how they are deployed, monitored, secured, scaled, and paid for.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/niels-emmer/myace/aws-waf-review
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.

Any agent
npx skills add niels-emmer/myace --skill aws-waf-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/niels-emmer/myace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 986 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.
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 $0.00038 $0.00986
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00493
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00099

Measured 12d ago against content hash 295c4d2790e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

AWS WAF Pillar Review 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 12d 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.

collections/additional/aws/skills/aws-waf-review/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

The AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) is AWS's set of design principles for building reliable, secure, cost-optimized, operationally excellent, performant, and sustainable workloads on AWS. This skill is the AWS-specific companion to iac-expert's generic well-architected-review skill: it maps each pillar to the concrete AWS services and decisions that actually move the needle, so a review checks real AWS constructs rather than abstract principles.

When to use it

Before calling any nontrivial AWS infrastructure change done — new resources, materially changed configuration, anything that affects how the workload is reached, scaled, secured, or paid for. Skip it for genuinely cosmetic changes (a tag fix, a variable rename with no resource impact).

The pillars, and what to actually check in AWS

Operational excellence. Can this change be deployed, rolled back, and monitored the same way as the rest of the environment — same pipeline (GitHub Actions/CodePipeline), same alerting (CloudWatch alarms), same logging (CloudWatch Logs, CloudTrail)? Is there a way to tell the resource is healthy without logging into the console by hand? Does it run as code (IaC) rather than click-ops, so it's reproducible?

Security. Does this follow private-by-default networking (private subnets, no public IPs, security groups/NACLs scoped to least access) and IAM-role-over-access-keys? Does it grant any new IAM permission, and is it scoped to least privilege rather than a broad AdministratorAccess/* policy? Does it introduce or remove a documented exception? Is Security Hub/GuardDuty/Config posture and CloudTrail coverage still intact?

Reliability. Does the resource have a single point of failure it didn't have to have? Consider multi-AZ deployment (an Auto Scaling group across AZs, a Multi-AZ RDS/Aurora cluster, an ALB/NLB in front of multiple targets), S3 versioning and cross-region replication for durable data, and RDS automated backups. If it fails, what notices and how does recovery happen — automatically (CloudWatch alarms, autoscaling, Route 53 failover) or does someone have to intervene? Does the change affect an existing backup path?

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 12d ago First seen · 85 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 295c4d2790e3

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AWS WAF Pillar Review is a skill published in the GitHub repository niels-emmer/myace (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 986 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.