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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