aws-spec-grounding

aws-spec-grounding is a skill for Claude Code from odere-pro/claude-aws-architect. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,171 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow skill for writing or reviewing AWS technical specifications with evidence for factual claims and reasons for design choices. AWS is Amazon’s cloud-computing platform.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing or reviewing AWS requirements, designs, task plans, component contracts, or architecture decision records.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unsupported statements about AWS limits, APIs, prices, regions, and resource identifiers. It also requires design recommendations to include their rationale.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-aws-architect plugin — 15 skills, 4 commands, 5 agents, 6 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it when preparing or reviewing AWS requirements, designs, task plans, component contracts, or architecture decision records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/odere-pro/claude-aws-architect/aws-spec-grounding
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 odere-pro/claude-aws-architect --skill aws-spec-grounding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/odere-pro/claude-aws-architect

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-aws-architect, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 4 commands, 5 agents, 6 MCP servers.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,171 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 $0.00065 $0.01171
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00585
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00117

Measured 10d ago against content hash aa420478ddaa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-spec-grounding 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 10d 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-spec-grounding/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use

Apply this skill any time an agent writes, edits, or reviews an AWS spec artefact: requirements.md, design.md, tasks.md, component contracts, or ADRs. The orchestrator and discovery agent invoke it at draft time; reviewers invoke it before accepting. Do not apply this skill to non-AWS prose or to internal scratch notes that never reach a spec file.

Trigger conditions:

  • The agent is about to assert a factual AWS detail (quota, API shape, pricing, region availability, service-to-service compatibility, ARN format).
  • The agent is about to recommend a design (data store, async vs sync, region strategy, identity boundary, instance class).
  • The agent is reviewing a draft spec and needs to find un-grounded claims.
  • The agent is asked to explain why a recommendation was made and the spec's rationale section is empty.

Procedure

  1. Classify the claim. For each sentence the agent is about to write, decide: is it a factual claim about AWS or a design opinion about how to use AWS? Consult references/opinion-vs-fact.md for the boundary cases.
  2. For factual claims. Attach at least one grounded-by: <server>:<short-key> citation. The citation must reference a ledger entry produced by a prior MCP call. Format rules in references/cite-format.md.
  3. For design opinions. Attach a one-paragraph rationale that names a Well-Architected pillar, a documented principle, or a stated trade-off. A bare "this is best practice" is not a rationale. Rules in references/grounded-by-rules.md.
  4. Detect missing grounding. A claim with no citation and no rationale is a violation. Emit it as a grounding-deferred marker so the orchestrator surfaces the gap; do not silently let it pass.
  5. Detect mismatched grounding. A factual claim with only a rationale (no citation) is also a violation — facts need sources, not philosophy. A design opinion with only a citation (no rationale) is a violation — opinions need reasoning, not just a doc link.
  6. Record the audit. Each violation is logged so reviewers can see which claims were flagged and which were resolved before the spec was accepted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 10d ago First seen · 57 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A aa420478ddaa

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aws-spec-grounding is a skill published in the GitHub repository odere-pro/claude-aws-architect (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,171 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 2026-08-31.

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