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signing-in-to-aws

An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: authentication, aws, cli, cloud, setup.

What it does

Gets AWS credentials for CLI/SDK access via `aws login`. Activates when a developer needs to authenticate to AWS for local development, when an AWS operation fails due to missing or expired credentials, or when someone asks about setting up AWS access. Triggers: "set up AWS", "configure AWS", "aws login", "get credentials", "authenticate", "session expired", "token expired", "no credentials", "AccessDeniedException" with no configured credentials.

Install

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

npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill signing-in-to-aws

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/signing-in-to-aws ~/.claude/skills/signing-in-to-aws

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Source

Repository
aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (all skills from this repository)
Path
plugins/aws-core/skills/signing-in-to-aws/SKILL.md
Branch
main
Collection
aws-core
Updated
2026-09-19