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.

README.md

aws-core