AWS Agent Toolkit
Official AWS toolkit: MCP servers, agent skills, and plugins for core AWS services.
About
The AWS Agent Toolkit is the official AWS-supported toolkit for wiring AI agents to AWS, maintained at github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws under Apache-2.0. It ships AWS-supported MCP servers, agent skills, and plugins covering core AWS services, so coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex can query service APIs, deployment patterns, infrastructure-as-code guidance, and service operations with accurate, vendor-maintained instructions.
Agents authenticate through existing AWS credentials (CLI profiles or IAM roles), with scoped IAM permissions keeping cloud automation safe. Honest caveats: this is a distinct artifact from the awslabs MCP-server collection already in the catalog (different repo, skills-plus-plugins packaging rather than Docker MCP servers); as with any cloud-automation tooling, agents with write access need guardrails before touching production infrastructure.
What it can do
- AWS-supported MCP servers for core services
- Agent skills for deployment and IaC workflows
- Plugin distributions for major agent harnesses
- Works with existing AWS CLI/IAM credentials
- Apache-2.0 licensed, vendor-maintained
Setup
npx skills add against github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws, or install its MCP servers.
Prerequisites
An AI coding agent; AWS CLI credentials with scoped IAM permissions.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
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Sources
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