aws-serverless Plugin

Category: Development
Topics: Cloud, Deployment & CI/CD · Web & App Development
First seen: 2026-07-09
Last confirmed: 2026-07-13
Explanation last updated: 2026-07-12

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aws-serverless is a plugin from the awslabs/agent-plugins repository that equips AI coding agents to design, build, deploy, test, and debug serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions, and durable functions. According to the source, it includes SAM and CDK deployment workflows, a SAM template validation hook, an AWS Lambda durable functions skill for resilient multi-step applications, and a Lambda Managed Instances skill for migrating workloads to EC2-backed Lambda. It is packaged as part of the broader Agent Plugins for AWS collection and is currently supported by Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The plugin's status is listed as Available.

Overview

aws-serverless is an agent plugin (not a standalone SaaS) that packages agent skills, an MCP server (aws-serverless-mcp), and a hook into AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, per the awslabs/agent-plugins README.

What you can do with aws-serverless

Design, build, deploy, test, and debug serverless applications with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, and Step Functions (aws-lambda skill)
Use SAM and CDK deployment workflows, including SAM init/deploy and CDK Lambda constructs (aws-serverless-deployment skill)
Build resilient, long-running, multi-step applications with retry/checkpoint patterns and the saga pattern (aws-lambda-durable-functions skill)
Evaluate, configure, and migrate workloads to EC2-backed Lambda via Lambda Managed Instances, including cold start elimination and Graviton Lambda considerations (aws-lambda-managed-instances skill)
Get serverless development guidance, project scaffolding, IaC generation, and deployment support via the aws-serverless-mcp server
Automatically run sam validate and get inline error reports after edits to template.yaml/template.yml via the SAM template validation hook

Sources

aws-serverless homepage (fetched: 2026-07-12)
aws-serverless README (fetched: 2026-07-12)

Original description (English)

Design, build, deploy, test, and debug serverless applications with AWS Serverless services.

History of aws-serverless

Plugin 2026-07-09 Added aws-serverless

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