querying-data-lake

An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: analytics, athena, data, querying, sql.

What it does

Execute and manage Athena SQL queries across default and federated catalogs (Glue, S3 Tables, Redshift). Triggers on phrases like: query data, run SQL, athena query, analyze table, SQL query, workgroup status, profile table, query Redshift catalog, query S3 Tables. Do NOT use for finding specific data assets (use finding-data-lake-assets), full catalog audits (use exploring-data-catalog), importing data (use ingesting-into-data-lake).

Install

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

npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill querying-data-lake

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-data-analytics/skills/querying-data-lake ~/.claude/skills/querying-data-lake

Safety box score

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Source

Repository

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

Path

plugins/aws-data-analytics/skills/querying-data-lake/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Collection

aws-data-analytics

Updated

2026-09-19

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