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AWS Ninja

AWS Ninja — 217+ AWS Skills for AI Agents

One skill to route them all. Access 217+ official AWS skills without wasting your context window.
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AWS Skills
217+
Supported Agents
36+
Official Repositories
6
License
MIT

The Problem

Section titled “The Problem”

You have access to 217+ official AWS skills spread across 6 different repositories. But loading them all into your AI agent’s context:

  • Consumes your entire context window before you even start
  • Slows down responses
  • Irrelevant skills interfere with answers

The Solution: Jump Skill

Section titled “The Solution: Jump Skill”

AWS Ninja is a jump skill — an intelligent router that:

  1. Analyzes your AWS task (EKS, Lambda, security, costs…)
  2. Identifies the most relevant skills from the 217+ catalog
  3. Loads only the necessary instructions on-demand
  4. Executes with Solutions Architect-grade knowledge

Result: Your agent becomes an AWS expert without wasting context.

How It Works

Section titled “How It Works”
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  /aws-ninja Design an EKS cluster for fintech with PCI-DSS     │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                              │
                              ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                         AWS NINJA                               │
│                    (Jump Skill Router)                          │
│                                                                 │
│  ✓ Parses task context                                          │
│  ✓ Searches 217 skills catalog                                  │
│  ✓ Identifies: eks-design + eks-security                        │
│  ✓ Loads SKILL.md with full procedures                          │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                              │
                              ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              SPECIALIZED EXECUTION                              │
│                                                                 │
│  Source: sample-apex-skills/skills/eks-design/                  │
│  Knowledge: AWS EKS Best Practices, CIS Benchmarks              │
│  Output: Architecture diagrams, Terraform, ADRs                 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Installation

  1. Clone the repository

    Terminal window
    git clone https://github.com/fabricioctelles/aws-ninja.git
    cd aws-ninja

  2. Sync AWS repositories

    Terminal window
    ./sync-repos.sh

  3. Install to your agents

    Terminal window
    ./install-aws-ninja.sh --global

Usage Examples

Section titled “Usage Examples”

Invoke with /aws-ninja followed by your task:

Command Routed To
/aws-ninja Design an EKS cluster for fintech with PCI-DSS eks-design + eks-security
/aws-ninja Help me choose between DynamoDB and Aurora aws-database → specific skill
/aws-ninja Scan this Terraform for security issues scanning-with-aws-security-agent
/aws-ninja Reduce costs on our EKS cluster eks-cost-intelligence
/aws-ninja Why is my Lambda timing out? debugging-lambda-timeouts
/aws-ninja Run a Well-Architected review aws-well-architected-framework-review
/aws-ninja Set up a production VPC with private subnets creating-production-vpc-multi-az

Skills Catalog

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217+ skills organized by AWS domain. All from official AWS repositories.

Compute & Containers

23 skills — EKS, ECS, Lambda, EC2, Fargate, Graviton

eks-design eks-build eks-security eks-upgrade-check ecs-architect aws-serverless

Databases

12 skills — DynamoDB, Aurora, RDS, ElastiCache, Neptune, DocumentDB

amazon-dynamodb amazon-aurora-mysql amazon-aurora-postgresql amazon-rds amazon-elasticache

Security & Identity

20+ skills — IAM, GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF, KMS, Secrets Manager

aws-iam aws-security-services aws-security-hub-reactor scanning-with-aws-security-agent

Infrastructure

15+ skills — VPC, CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, networking

creating-production-vpc-multi-az cdk-* aws-networking aws-cloudformation

DevOps & Operations

18+ skills — CI/CD, observability, incidents, troubleshooting

building-ci-cd-pipelines investigating-aws-incidents amazon-cloudwatch aws-x-ray

Well-Architected

5 skills — Complete reviews of all 6 pillars

aws-well-architected-framework-review security-pillar cost-optimization-pillar

View full catalog →

Source Repositories

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Skills extracted from official AWS repositories:

Organization Repository Skills Focus
aws agent-toolkit-for-aws 100+ Core services, databases, serverless, security
aws tools-for-devops-agent 15 Operations, incidents, RDS/EKS reviews
aws-samples sample-apex-skills 25+ EKS, ECS, platform engineering
aws-samples sample-agent-skills-for-builders 13 CDK, testing, cost estimation
aws-samples sample-well-architected-skills-and-steering 5 Well-Architected reviews
aws-samples sample-corgiro-aws-ops-skills 1 Multi-account operations

Supported Agents

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The installer auto-detects and installs to available agents:

Claude Code

Anthropic

Kiro

Amazon

Cursor

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

GitHub

Windsurf

Codeium

Codex CLI

OpenAI

Plus 30+ more agents: Gemini CLI, Cline, Roo, Continue, Goose, OpenHands, Tabnine, Augment, Amp, and others.

Why Jump Skills?

Section titled “Why Jump Skills?”
Traditional Approach Jump Skill Approach
Load all 217 skills into context Load only metadata (~500 tokens)
Consumes entire context window Minimal context usage
Slower responses Fast routing
Irrelevant skills interfere Always uses most specific skill

Frequently Asked Questions

Why not install all skills directly?

The Jump Skill prevents your context window from being wasted — it loads only the skills needed for each task. With 217 skills, loading them all would consume your entire context before you even start working.

Are these official AWS skills?

Yes! All 217+ skills come from official AWS repositories on GitHub: aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws, aws-samples/sample-apex-skills, and other AWS-maintained repositories.

Does it work offline?

Yes, after installation. Repositories are cloned locally and skills are Markdown files — they don't depend on external APIs to work.

How do I update the skills?

Run ./sync-repos.sh (Linux/macOS) or .\sync-repos.ps1 (Windows) to update all AWS repositories to the latest version.

Can I use it with custom skills?

Yes! AWS Ninja routes to official AWS skills, but you can have other skills installed in parallel. They don't interfere.

What's the license?

MIT — you can use, modify, and redistribute freely. The code is available on GitHub.

Contributing

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Contributions are welcome! See the contribution guide.

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