aws-cdk

An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: cloud, devops, infrastructure, python, typescript.

What it does

Authors, deploys, and troubleshoots AWS infrastructure using CDK with TypeScript or Python. Covers best practices, stack architecture, and construct patterns. Applies when writing CDK constructs, bootstrapping environments, running cdk deploy/synth/diff, fixing CDK or CloudFormation errors, planning stack structure, importing existing resources, resolving drift, or refactoring stacks without resource replacement.

Install

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

npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-cdk

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-core/skills/aws-cdk ~/.claude/skills/aws-cdk

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Source

Repository

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

Path

plugins/aws-core/skills/aws-cdk/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Collection

aws-core

Updated

2026-09-19

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