aws-mcp-setup

aws-mcp-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,496 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A setup guide for AWS MCP servers, which let AI agents search AWS documentation or call AWS APIs. It explains the documentation-only option and the fuller option that needs AWS credentials and can make API calls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure or troubleshoot AWS MCP connectivity, check active servers, search AWS documentation, or enable AWS API access.
Why use it?
It helps you identify which server is already configured and avoid confusing documentation search with access to AWS resources.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to configure or troubleshoot AWS MCP connectivity, check active servers, search AWS documentation, or enable AWS API access.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/aws-mcp-setup
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,230 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill aws-mcp-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,496 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Agent Snooping · line 55
    Skill accesses MCP server configuration files (mcp.json). MCP configs contain server URLs, authentication tokens, and tool definitions — reading them allows the skill to discover and potentially abuse other tool integrations.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that read MCP configuration files (mcp.json). MCP server details should be managed by the agent runtime, not read by individual skills.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 3
    uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.
    Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 16
    uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.
    Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 74
    uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.
    Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 82
    uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.
    Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 153
    uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.
    Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
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 $0.00053 $0.01496
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00748
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00150

Measured 3d ago against content hash 602d7ef00b51, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

aws-mcp-setup scanned grade B 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 3d 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.

Reads MCP configurationmediumAgent snooping

mcp.json carries server URLs and auth tokens; reading it lets a mod discover and abuse other integrations.

cat .mcp.json 2>/dev/null | grep -E '"(aws-mcp|aws|awsdocs)"'
Origin

Copies of this mod

7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/aws-mcp-setup/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS MCP Server Configuration Guide

When to Use

Use this skill when you need configure AWS MCP servers for documentation search and API access. Use when setting up AWS MCP, configuring AWS documentation tools, troubleshooting MCP connectivity, or when user mentions aws-mcp, awsdocs, uvx setup, or MCP server configuration. Covers both Full AWS MCP Server (with...

Overview

This guide helps you configure AWS MCP tools for AI agents. Two options are available:

Option Requirements Capabilities
Full AWS MCP Server Python 3.10+, uvx, AWS credentials Execute AWS API calls + documentation search
AWS Documentation MCP None Documentation search only

Step 1: Check Existing Configuration

Before configuring, check if AWS MCP tools are already available using either method:

Method A: Check Available Tools (Recommended)

Look for these tool name patterns in your agent's available tools:

  • mcp__aws-mcp__* or mcp__aws__* → Full AWS MCP Server configured
  • mcp__*awsdocs*__aws___* → AWS Documentation MCP configured

How to check: Run /mcp command to list all active MCP servers.

Method B: Check Configuration Files

Agent tools use hierarchical configuration (precedence: local → project → user → enterprise):

Scope File Location Use Case
Local .claude.json (in project) Personal/experimental
Project .mcp.json (project root) Team-shared
User ~/.claude.json Cross-project personal
Enterprise System managed directories Organization-wide

Check these files for mcpServers containing aws-mcp, aws, or awsdocs keys:

# Check project config
cat .mcp.json 2>/dev/null | grep -E '"(aws-mcp|aws|awsdocs)"'

# Check user config
cat ~/.claude.json 2>/dev/null | grep -E '"(aws-mcp|aws|awsdocs)"'

# Or use Claude CLI
claude mcp list

If AWS MCP is already configured, no further setup needed.

Step 2: Choose Configuration Method

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 3d ago Changed · -9 tokens per session 602d7ef00b51
  2. 5d ago First seen · 193 lines · 62 tokens per session scan B 2658ba67a287

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aws-mcp-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,230 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,496 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads mcp configuration). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.