aws-core
The primary plugin for the Agent Toolkit for AWS. This plugin gives your AI coding agent the AWS MCP Server configuration and a curated set of agent skills — everything it needs to build, deploy, and manage applications on AWS.
Install
Claude Code
/plugin install aws-core@claude-plugins-official
/reload-plugins
Codex
In your terminal:
codex plugin marketplace add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
Then launch Codex and run /plugins to browse and install the aws-core plugin.
What's included
AWS MCP Server
This plugin configures the AWS MCP Server, a managed server that gives your agent:
- Real-time AWS documentation search through
search_documentation(no authentication required) - On-demand skill discovery and retrieval through
retrieve_skill(no authentication required) - Authenticated access to any of the 300+ AWS services through
call_aws - Sandboxed Python script execution through
run_script
Skills
This plugin includes the following default skills:
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| billing-and-cost-management | Analyze, monitor, and optimize AWS costs |
| aws-sdk-js-v3-usage | Best practices for the AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 |
| aws-sdk-python-usage | Best practices for the AWS SDK for Python (boto3) |
| aws-sdk-swift-usage | Best practices for the AWS SDK for Swift |
| aws-serverless | Build serverless applications on AWS |
| bedrock | Build with Amazon Bedrock foundation models |
| cdk | Define and manage AWS infrastructure with CDK and CloudFormation |
| cloudformation | CloudFormation deployment, validation, and troubleshooting |
| observability | Monitor applications with CloudWatch |
| containers | Run containerized workloads on AWS |
| storage | Store and manage data with AWS storage services |
| aws-blocks | Build full-stack applications with AWS Blocks |
| aws-database | Route any AWS database task to the right service and skill |
Rules files
Recommended AWS rules files are available separately in the rules/ directory of this repository.