troubleshooting-s3-files

An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: aws, performance, storage, sync, troubleshooting.

What it does

Diagnoses and resolves Amazon S3 Files issues including mount failures, permission errors, synchronization problems, and performance issues. Use when the user has an S3 file system that is not mounting, returning access denied, not syncing changes to S3, showing files in lost+found, or performing slower than expected.

Install

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

npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill troubleshooting-s3-files

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/storage-skills/troubleshooting-s3-files ~/.claude/skills/troubleshooting-s3-files

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Source

Repository

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

Path

skills/specialized-skills/storage-skills/troubleshooting-s3-files/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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