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.
npx skills add zxkane/aws-skills --skill aws-cdk-developmentgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zxkane/aws-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zxkane/aws-skills/aws-cdk-development)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zxkane/aws-skills/aws-cdk-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zxkane/aws-skills/aws-cdk-development/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zxkane/aws-skills/aws-cdk-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zxkane/aws-skills/aws-cdk-development.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
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 →
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 35 uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00088 | $0.02232 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00044 | $0.01116 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00446 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00223 |
Grade A, and why
aws-cdk-development 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 9d 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.
Copies of this mod
3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- aws-cdk-development — 95% identical, 18 lines differ
- aws-cdk-development — 95% identical, 18 lines differ
- aws-cdk-development — 84% identical, 51 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AWS CDK Development
This skill provides comprehensive guidance for developing AWS infrastructure using the Cloud Development Kit (CDK), with integrated MCP servers for accessing latest AWS knowledge and CDK utilities.
AWS Documentation Requirement
Always verify AWS facts using MCP tools (mcp__aws-mcp__* or mcp__*awsdocs*__*) before answering. The aws-mcp-setup dependency is auto-loaded — if MCP tools are unavailable, guide the user through that skill's setup flow.
CDK-Specific MCP Guidance
AWS Labs replaced the dedicated CDK MCP server (awslabs.cdk-mcp-server) with the broader awslabs.aws-iac-mcp-server, which covers CDK alongside CloudFormation and other AWS infrastructure-as-code workflows.
For CDK construct lookups, best-practice recommendations, and pattern guidance, install awslabs.aws-iac-mcp-server. It ships in the deploy-on-aws plugin from awslabs/agent-plugins, or can be registered directly with claude mcp add aws-iac uvx awslabs.aws-iac-mcp-server@latest.
When to reach for it:
- CDK construct recommendations and API lookups
- CDK and CloudFormation best-practice patterns
- Validation of synthesized templates
- Cross-resource configuration guidance
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when:
- Creating new CDK stacks or constructs
- Refactoring existing CDK infrastructure
- Implementing Lambda functions within CDK
- Following AWS CDK best practices
- Validating CDK stack configurations before deployment
- Verifying AWS service capabilities and regional availability
Core CDK Principles
Resource Naming
CRITICAL: Do NOT explicitly specify resource names when they are optional in CDK constructs.
Why: CDK-generated names enable:
- Reusable patterns: Deploy the same construct/pattern multiple times without conflicts
- Parallel deployments: Multiple stacks can deploy simultaneously in the same region
- Cleaner shared logic: Patterns and shared code can be initialized multiple times without name collision
- Stack isolation: Each stack gets uniquely identified resources automatically
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 280 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A aabd38e7b6a9
aws-cdk-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository zxkane/aws-skills (360 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,232 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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