creating-api-gateway-stage
An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: api-gateway, aws, deployment, monitoring, security.
What it does
Creates an API Gateway stage with CloudWatch logging, X-Ray tracing, throttling, WAF integration, and IAM roles following AWS best practices. Use when deploying a REST API to different environments such as dev, test, or production.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill creating-api-gateway-stage
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/skills/specialized-skills/serverless-skills/creating-api-gateway-stage ~/.claude/skills/creating-api-gateway-stage
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Source
- Repository
- aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- skills/specialized-skills/serverless-skills/creating-api-gateway-stage/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
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