agents-build

An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: ai, architecture, automation, integration, multi-agent.

What it does

Use to extend an existing agent project with memory, app integration, VPC, multi-agent, migration, model, browser, code interpreter, payments, or resource removal. Triggers: "add memory", "remember across sessions", "call agent from app", "invoke agent from code", "agent auth", "streaming", "VPC", "VPC connectivity", "can't reach from VPC", "multi-agent", "A2A", "A2A auth", "orchestrator not delegating", "specialist not called", "migrate Bedrock Agent", "migration issue", "change model", "browser tool", "code interpreter", "delete agent", "tear down", "agentcore remove", "cross-account memory", "add payments capability to my agent", "wire payments plugin", "integrate x402 payments with the agent I'm building", "add MPP payments", "Machine Payments Protocol". External APIs via Gateway: use agents-connect. New project: use agents-get-started. CLI/dev-server errors: use agents-debug. Runtime x402/MPP payments: use agents-pay. Migration-specific Strands vs LangGraph routes here.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill agents-build

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
cp -r agent-toolkit-for-aws/plugins/aws-agents/skills/agents-build ~/.claude/skills/agents-build

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Source

Repository

aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (all skills from this repository)

Path

plugins/aws-agents/skills/agents-build/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Collection

aws-agents

Updated

2026-09-19

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