AWS Agent Toolkit
Official AWS-supported bundle of plugins, skills, rules, and MCP server configuration for agents building, deploying, and managing AWS applications.
What it is
aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws gives coding agents AWS-specific skills and a managed AWS MCP Server route. The README names Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Kiro as supported agent surfaces and includes install paths for AWS plugins and skills. Source: GitHub README, 2026-06-26
The toolkit currently includes:
| Surface | What it covers |
|---|---|
aws-core plugin |
service selection, CDK/CloudFormation, serverless, containers, storage, observability, billing, SDK usage, deployment |
aws-agents plugin |
AI agents on AWS, including Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore |
aws-data-analytics plugin |
S3 Tables, AWS Glue, Athena, data lake, analytics, and ETL workflows |
aws-agents-for-devsecops plugin |
incident investigation, code review, UAT readiness, vulnerability scanning, penetration-test support |
| AWS MCP Server | AWS API coverage, sandboxed script execution, AWS documentation search, CloudWatch metrics, IAM condition keys, CloudTrail audit logging |
Source: GitHub README, 2026-06-26
Routing
Use AWS Agent Toolkit when an agent is expected to reason about AWS architecture, docs, service selection, CDK/CloudFormation, Bedrock/AgentCore, data/analytics, or AWS security workflows.
Use the local aws CLI when you need normal account-specific reads/writes and already know the exact AWS API call. Use Floci for laptop/CI AWS-shaped tests when real cloud mutation is unnecessary. For any mutation, confirm account, region, and environment first.
Guardrails
This page does not mean "let agents mutate AWS freely." The useful parts are AWS-supported documentation search, skills, rules, audited plugin bundles, and MCP logging/audit controls. Writes still follow the repo's cloud mutation rule: identify target account, read/list first, dry-run or plan when possible, and ask before production or cost-bearing changes.
Timeline
- 2026-06-26 | Promoted from Kevin's GitHub stars harvest. GitHub API reported 1,323 stars, Python, Apache-2.0; README says the toolkit is GA and is the successor path for AWS Labs MCP servers, skills, and plugins. Source:
raw/github/aws_agent-toolkit-for-aws-repo-2026-06-26.json; GitHub README, 2026-06-26