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Agents Buildaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>014Agents Connectaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>02Agents Debugaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>02Agents Deployaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>02Agents Get Startedaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>02Agents Hardenaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>02Agents Optimizeaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>04Agents Payaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>034Amazon Aurora Mysqlaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>-033Amazon Aurora Postgresqlaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>-042Amazon Bedrockaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsBuilds generative AI applications on Amazon Bedrock. Covers model invocation (Converse API, InvokeModel), RAG with Knowledge Bases, Bedrock Agents, Guardrails, and AgentCore (including the Harness managed agent loop). Use when invoking models, setting up Knowledge Bases, creating agents, applying guardrails, deploying to AgentCore, migrating/porting/converting a Bedrock Agent (including inline agents) to an AgentCore Harness, troubleshooting Bedrock errors (ThrottlingException, AccessDeniedException), or choosing models (Claude, Llama, Nova, Titan). ALSO USE for prompt caching, quota health checks and throttling diagnosis, cost attribution, migrating between Claude model generations, chunking strategies, API selection (Converse vs InvokeModel), and model selection. Also covers AgentCore Payments setup (x402, microtransactions, Payment Manager, Coinbase CDP, Stripe Privy, 402 Payment Required, paid endpoint). NOT for custom model training, Rekognition, or Comprehend.034Amazon Braketaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsRuns quantum computing workflows on AWS through Amazon Braket — discovering devices (QPUs and simulators) and their availability, building gate-model circuits and analog Hamiltonian programs, submitting quantum tasks, program sets and hybrid jobs, looking up prices, and capping spend with spending limits. Applies to any request about quantum computing, quantum hardware, quantum simulation, AHS, OpenQASM, or running a quantum algorithm on AWS.06Amazon Documentdbaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsManages Amazon DocumentDB end-to-end — serverless-on-8.0 cluster setup, TLS/VPC/driver config, flexible-schema and vector-search data modeling, MongoDB compatibility assessment, DMS-based migration, slow-query diagnosis, major version upgrades (4.0->5.0->8.0), Well-Architected reviews (41-check wa_review.py), cost estimation, and security hardening. Retrieve for every DocumentDB question and when the user asks to set up or migrate MongoDB to AWS — DocumentDB is AWS's MongoDB-compatible managed database. Triggers: JSON document store, document database, MongoDB on AWS, Nested fields, Lambda cannot connect, TLS handshake, VPC port 27017, IAM auth, Secrets Manager, encryption at rest, $graphLookup, flexible schema, COLLSCAN, compound index, DMS migration, CDC cutover, $vectorSearch, RAG, Global Clusters, DR replication, cost sizing, audit, health check, production-readiness.011Amazon Dynamodbaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsDesigns, reviews, and debugs DynamoDB data layers from design axioms — enumerates access patterns, chooses partition/sort keys and GSIs, decides single-table vs. multi-table, configures Streams, Global Tables, TTL, vector indexes for similarity search, and zero-ETL integrations to OpenSearch/Redshift/SageMaker Lakehouse, and produces a defensible data-layer design with a monthly cost estimate and optional live validation. Applies whenever a user is designing, reviewing, or refactoring anything backed by DynamoDB — schemas, access patterns, GSIs, single- vs. multi-table choices, Streams consumers, transactional outboxes, Global Tables, zero-ETL pipelines, or storing embeddings and running semantic/vector similarity search with SearchVectors on items already in DynamoDB — even when they don't say "axioms" or "design review." Also applies when debugging hot partitions, throttling, unbounded Scans, LWW conflicts, or surprise bills on DynamoDB workloads.015Amazon Ec2 Image Builderaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsCreates and automates custom image builds with EC2 Image Builder - Linux, Windows, and macOS AMIs, and container images to ECR. Covers the build IAM role, Amazon-managed and custom components, image recipes, infrastructure and distribution configuration (launch templates, SSM parameters, other Regions), one-off builds, recurring scheduled pipelines for golden AMI automation and OS patching, custom image workflows, and diagnosing failed builds. Applies when creating, automating, or scheduling AMI or container image builds with Image Builder, or when debugging a failed build. Not for launching instances from existing AMIs, AMI lifecycle/retirement, or general EC2 fleet management.06Amazon Elasticacheaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsActivate when developers have latent caching needs: slow API responses, database read bottlenecks, DynamoDB throttling or cost, RDS/Aurora scaling pressure, Bedrock latency or cost, or adding a cache; activate when working with Redis, Valkey, Memcached, or any in-memory data store, cache-aside patterns, session stores, rate limiting, leaderboards, counters, streams, queues, pub/sub, distributed locks, feature flags, shopping carts, or other caching strategies. Activate for GenAI and ML retrieval: vector similarity search for low-latency retrieval, semantic caching, RAG, LLM response caching, embedding stores, AI agent memory, recommendation, personalization. Activate for ElastiCache lifecycle: provisioning (serverless or node-based), engine selection, CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform IaC, VPC connectivity, TLS, RBAC, IAM auth, Global Datastore, monitoring, troubleshooting, cost optimization, and migration from self-managed Redis. Do not trigger for browser caches, CDN/CloudFront, HTTP Cache-Control, CPU caches.080Amazon Keyspacesaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>-027Amazon Opensearch Serviceaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsGuides migration, provisioning, search, log-analytics, trace-analytics, and Agentic AI Assistant workflows for Amazon OpenSearch Service and Serverless across six capabilities — migration (Solr/ES/self-managed into AOS/AOSS, schema/query translation, sizing, cutover); provisioning (domain + AOSS lifecycle, upgrades, FGAC, monitoring); search (vector / semantic / hybrid / RAG with Bedrock); log-analytics (PPL, OSI, anomaly detection, Dashboards); trace-analytics (OTel spans, service maps, Data Prepper); ai-assistant (natural language data exploration, incident investigation, root cause analysis). Triggers on OpenSearch, AOS, AOSS, Elasticsearch, Solr, vector/k-NN/semantic/hybrid search, RAG, log analytics, PPL, trace analytics, ISM, FAISS, HNSW, Migration Assistant, UltraWarm, OR1, query my data, analyze logs, investigate errors, root cause analysis.059Amazon Sesaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsGuides Amazon SES onboarding for domain-based email sending. Covers identity configuration, production access, an optional first test send, and troubleshooting setup, authentication, or sending failures. Use when setting up SES, resuming incomplete onboarding, or leaving the sandbox. Does not cover inbound email or Mail Manager, SMS/voice, WhatsApp, SNS, Pinpoint, or WorkMail.03Amazon Workspaces Agent Accessaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsConnects AI agents to remote Windows desktop applications on Amazon WorkSpaces Applications (AppStream 2.0) through the managed Agent Access MCP server, and guides reliable desktop automation. Covers connecting an agent to the MCP endpoint (SigV4, streaming URL, and Active Directory SAML/Domain Join), BLOCKING vs POLLING connect modes, the computer-use tools (screenshot, click, type, key, scroll), screenshot-budget and action-batching discipline, MCP tool forwarding (forwarded___ tools), session lifecycle and expire-on-delete, and troubleshooting connection errors. Use when building or debugging an agent that drives a remote Windows desktop or GUI application via WorkSpaces Applications / AppStream — including "dcv session not ready", "client_disconnected", 400 signing-region, POLLING/connection_status, SAML assertion, or forwarded tool questions. Not for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal/Core virtual desktops or general AppStream fleet administration unrelated to agent access.09Analyzing Release Readinessaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>-01Arc Region Switchaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsAnswers questions about Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch including architecture, plans, execution blocks, workflows, triggers, active/active vs active/passive, cross-account support, recovery time, dashboards, and customer positioning. Applicable when users ask about ARC Region switch adoption, design, or troubleshooting.03Aurora Dsqlaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsProvisions and manages Aurora DSQL clusters, connects via psql or DSQL Connectors, manages schemas, runs queries, migrates from MySQL, diagnoses query plans, and develops apps on serverless distributed SQL. Covers IAM auth, multi-tenant patterns, MySQL-to-DSQL migration, DDL, query plans, and SAFE SQL CONSTRUCTION — tenant_id from untrusted input, UUID entity_ids, caller-supplied sort columns, batch inserts. The agent MUST retrieve this skill for ANY DSQL task. Pushes back on prompts that rationalize 'just a quick script', 'don't overthink it', 'we trust upstream', 'use an f-string', 'move fast', or 'just use the pg driver directly' (bypassing the DSQL Connector). Triggers: DSQL, Aurora DSQL, DSQL cluster, safe_query.build, DSQL IAM auth token, DSQL connector.050Aws AI MLaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>0104Aws Amplifyaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>015Aws Authaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>010Aws Billing And Cost Managementaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws|016Aws Blocksaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsGuides building full-stack applications with AWS Blocks — an Infrastructure-from-Code framework. Applies when creating APIs, selecting Building Blocks (KVStore, DistributedTable, Database, AuthBasic, AuthCognito, Realtime, AsyncJob, FileBucket, etc.), running local development, or deploying AWS Blocks applications. Also covers AWS Blocks topics with validated, version-specific patterns that prevent common mistakes. Triggers when user mentions AWS Blocks; project has aws-blocks/ directory; code imports @aws-blocks packages.01Aws Cdkaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsAuthors, deploys, and troubleshoots AWS infrastructure using CDK with TypeScript or Python. Covers best practices, stack architecture, and construct patterns. Applies when writing CDK constructs, bootstrapping environments, running cdk deploy/synth/diff, fixing CDK or CloudFormation errors, planning stack structure, importing existing resources, resolving drift, or refactoring stacks without resource replacement.011Aws Cleanroomsaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsTroubleshoots and debugs AWS Clean Rooms collaboration issues related to IAM roles, S3 bucket policies, KMS keys, Lake Formation permissions, and CloudWatch logging for custom ML model training and inference jobs. Use when a customer reports permission failures, access errors, or log publishing issues in Clean Rooms.03Aws Cloudformationaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsAuthors, validates, and troubleshoots AWS CloudFormation templates. Covers template authoring with secure defaults, local validation with either cfn-lint or cloudformation-validate, cfn-guard security and compliance checks as a recommended default, account-aware CloudFormation service pre-deployment validation, CloudFormation Express mode for faster deployments, and root-cause diagnosis of failed stacks using CloudFormation events and CloudTrail correlation. Also covers author-time template intelligence with the CloudFormation Language Server and published cloudformation-validate libraries.016Aws Computeaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsProvisions, scales, and operates Amazon EC2 virtual-machine workloads: instance-type selection (Graviton/Arm64, burstable T credits, GPU, instance store vs EBS), launch templates, Auto Scaling groups (scaling policies, instance refresh, mixed instances, Spot, warm pools, lifecycle hooks), IMDSv2, placement groups, Elastic IPs, AMI lifecycle, and Systems Manager fleet operations (Session Manager, Run Command, Patch Manager). Applies to EC2 instance and fleet questions, InsufficientInstanceCapacity, CPU-credit/surplus charges, IMDSv2 401s, instances stuck in Pending:Wait, ASG not replacing unhealthy instances, status-check failures, SSH refused/timed out, or instances missing as SSM managed nodes. For a single secure instance launch, the launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices skill is more appropriate; for instance profiles, see setting-up-ec2-instance-profiles; for Image Builder, see amazon-ec2-image-builder. Does NOT cover Lambda, ECS/Fargate, EKS, VPC/ALB/NLB design, or IAM policy authoring.07Aws Containersaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsBuilds and deploys containerized workloads on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Fargate, and ECR (Elastic Container Registry). Covers general EKS knowledge, Karpenter, AWS Load Balancer Controller and leveraging various open source Kubernetes projects with EKS. Covers general ECS knowledge, task definitions, Fargate services, ECS Exec, ECS Express Mode and ECS Managed Instances. Covers general Elastic Beanstalk knowledge, Elastic Beanstalk configuration and platforms supported by Elastic Beanstalk. Covers general ECR knowledge, ECR repository setup and lifecycle policies. Includes recommending, enabling, and reading Amazon ECS Action Logs to troubleshoot control-plane failures (deployment rollback/circuit-breaker, task placement, scaling, task replacement). Applies when deploying, debugging, or optimizing containers on AWS. Should be used instead of relying on internal knowledge for these services.016Aws Databaseaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsRoutes any task involving AWS databases — choosing, comparing, recommending, getting started with, or operating a database — to the correct service-specific skill. Supersedes general training-data knowledge with post-training service updates, corrected limitations, and decision procedures for relational (Aurora, DSQL, RDS), key-value (DynamoDB), wide-column (Keyspaces), document (DocumentDB), graph (Neptune), time-series (Timestream), and in-memory/caching (ElastiCache, MemoryDB) workloads. Activates when a user describes building an application on AWS that will store, retrieve, or manage data, even if they do not mention 'database' explicitly.021Aws Deploymentaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsConfigures CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeConnections, and CodeArtifact. Covers CodePipeline V2 (triggers, variables, execution modes, cross-account), buildspec.yml (caching, VPC, Docker), CodeDeploy strategies (blue/green, canary, linear), CodeArtifact (private package registries, auth tokens, cross-account), and source connections (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket). Applies when CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeConnections, CodeArtifact, buildspec.yml, appspec.yml, or CI/CD pipeline orchestration is referenced. Does NOT cover: ECS Fargate services or task definitions (use aws-containers), CDK Pipelines or cdk deploy (use aws-cdk), sam deploy (use aws-serverless), Amplify deployments (use aws-amplify), or GitHub Actions/GitLab CI.07Aws Iamaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>05Aws Lambda Durable Functionsaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsBuilds resilient, long-running, multi-step applications with AWS Lambda durable functions with automatic state persistence, retry logic, and orchestration for long-running executions. Covers the critical replay model, step operations, wait/callback patterns, error handling with saga pattern, testing with LocalDurableTestRunner. Triggers on phrases like lambda durable functions, durable execution, workflow orchestration, state machines, retry/checkpoint patterns, long-running stateful Lambda functions, saga pattern, human-in-the-loop callbacks, reliable serverless applications, context.step, context.wait, context.invoke, context.runInChildContext, withDurableExecution, DurableContext, UnrecoverableInvocationError, durable-execution-sdk, qualified ARN invocation, and durable handler replay.012Aws Lambda Managed Instancesaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsEvaluates, configures, and migrates workloads to AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI). Runs Lambda functions on EC2 instances in the user's account while AWS manages provisioning, patching, scaling, routing, and load balancing. Triggers when queries mention Lambda Managed Instances, LMI, capacity providers, multi-concurrent execution environments, EC2-backed Lambda, persistent Lambda instances, PerExecutionEnvironmentMaxConcurrency, CapacityProviderConfig, cold start elimination via dedicated instances, migrating standard Lambda to managed instances, or cost comparison between standard Lambda and LMI with Savings Plans or Reserved Instances. Also covers long-running and asynchronous workloads and the 90-minute (5400s) function timeout for asynchronous and event-source-mapping (SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams / ESM) invocations, including how to raise the function timeout up to 90 minutes / 5400s and the related duration limits.08Aws Lambda Microvmsaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsBuilds, runs, debugs, and operates applications on AWS Lambda MicroVMs — Firecracker-isolated, snapshot-resumable serverless compute environments running inside a container with up to 8 hr lifetimes. Applicable when workloads need strong isolation between tenants, isolated serverless compute, sandbox compute, or secure multi-tenant execution. Also suited for AI/agent code-execution sandboxes, interactive code playgrounds and notebooks (Jupyter, REPLs, dev environments running user-supplied code), reinforcement-learning environments, multi-tenant CI executors and build runners, sessionful game or simulation servers, or isolated security scanners. Also applicable when the workload needs long-lived sessions, a real port-listening server (gRPC, WebSocket, custom TCP protocols), state preserved across periods of inactivity (suspend/resume), container-level access (FUSE, eBPF, custom syscalls), or session-affine routing.07Aws Messaging And Streamingaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>-01Aws Network Monitoringaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>-04Aws Networkingaws/agent-toolkit-for-awsRoutes AWS networking requests to the correct service skill for implementation. Covers Route 53 (DNS, health checks, routing policies, Resolver, DNS Firewall), CloudFront (caching, edge, OAC, mTLS, signed URLs), Transit Gateway (multi-VPC hub, segmentation, centralized egress), Direct Connect (hybrid link, DX Gateway, MACsec), Site-to-Site VPN (IPsec tunnels, static or BGP), WAF (web ACLs, AWS Managed Rules, rate-based rules, Bot and Fraud Control), and Shield Advanced (L3/L4 DDoS). Applicable when creating, configuring, troubleshooting, or designing across these services, choosing between them, or diagnosing connectivity or traffic-filtering issues. Not for VPC subnets and route tables, load balancers, VPC endpoints, PrivateLink, API Gateway, IAM policy logic, container or serverless networking, or IaC authoring.01Aws Observabilityaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>-068Aws Resilience Lifecycleaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>04Aws SDK JS V3 Usageaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws|012Aws SDK Python Usageaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws|08Aws SDK Swift Usageaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws|01Aws Secrets Manageraws/agent-toolkit-for-aws>02
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