aws-core Plugin
Plugin Claude Code Development Cloud, Deployment & CI/CDAI Agents & AI App DevelopmentThe explanation below is AI-generated. Please verify it against the sources.
aws-core is the primary plugin in AWS's Agent Toolkit for AWS, designed to give AI coding agents the AWS MCP Server configuration and a curated set of agent skills for building, deploying, and managing applications on AWS. According to the plugin's README, it covers service selection, CDK/CloudFormation, serverless, containers, storage, observability, billing, SDK usage, and deployment, and is recommended as the starting plugin ('Start here'). It can be installed in Claude Code via '/plugin install aws-core@claude-plugins-official' or in Codex via 'codex plugin marketplace add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws' followed by '/plugins'. The bundled AWS MCP Server provides documentation search and skill retrieval without authentication, plus authenticated access to AWS services and sandboxed script execution. The project is licensed under Apache-2.0.
Overview
aws-core is a plugin (not a standalone SaaS) that bundles the AWS MCP Server configuration together with a set of agent skills, distributed as part of the aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws repository. It is installed into a compatible AI coding agent (e.g., Claude Code, Codex) to give that agent tools and guidance for working with AWS.
What you can do with aws-core
- Install the plugin in Claude Code ('/plugin install aws-core@claude-plugins-official') or Codex ('codex plugin marketplace add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws' then '/plugins')
- Get AWS MCP Server access for documentation search ('search_documentation') and skill discovery/retrieval ('retrieve_skill') without authentication
- Get authenticated access to 300+ AWS services via 'call_aws'
- Run sandboxed Python scripts for multi-step operations via 'run_script'
- Use curated skills covering billing-and-cost-management, AWS SDK usage (JS v3, Python, Swift), aws-serverless, bedrock, cdk, cloudformation, observability, containers, storage, aws-blocks, and aws-database
- Reference separately available rules files in the repository's 'rules/' directory for guidance on using the AWS MCP Server and discovering skills
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Original description (English)
Build, deploy, and operate applications on AWS. Skills to author infrastructure-as-code, use core services, and complete common tasks.