Deploy Agent Skill
Deploy applications to AWS. Triggers on phrases like: deploy to AWS, host on AWS, run this on AWS, AWS architecture, estimate AWS cost, generate infrastructure. Analyzes any codebase and deploys to optimal AWS services.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/awslabs/agent-plugins --skill deployThe instruction itself
10 sections, as written by the authorDeploy on AWS
Take any application and deploy it to AWS with minimal user decisions.
Philosophy
Minimize cognitive burden. User has code, wants it on AWS. Pick the most
straightforward services. Don't ask questions with obvious answers.
Workflow
- Analyze - Scan codebase for framework, database, dependencies
- Recommend - Select AWS services, concisely explain rationale
- Estimate - Show monthly cost before proceeding
- Generate - Write IaC code with security defaults applied
- Deploy - Run security checks, then execute with user confirmation
Defaults
See defaults.md for the complete service selection matrix.
Core principle: Default to dev-sized (cost-conscious: small instance sizes, minimal redundancy, and non-HA/single-AZ defaults) unless user says "production-ready".
MCP Servers
awsknowledge
Consult for architecture decisions. Use when choosing between AWS services
or validating that a service fits the use case. Helps answer "what's the
right AWS service for X?"
Key topics: general for architecture, amplify_docs for static sites/SPAs,
cdk_docs and cdk_constructs for IaC patterns.
awspricing
Get cost estimates. Always present costs before generating IaC so user
can adjust before committing. See cost-estimation.md
for query patterns.
awsiac
Consult for IaC best practices. Use when writing CDK/CloudFormation/Terraform
to ensure patterns follow AWS recommendations.
Principles
- Concisely explain why each service was chosen
- Always show cost estimate before generating code
- Apply security defaults automatically (encryption, private subnets, least privilege)
- Run IaC security scans (cfn-nag, checkov) before deployment
- Don't ask "Lambda or Fargate?" - just pick the obvious one
- If genuinely ambiguous, then ask
- Never recommend AWS App Runner — it is in maintenance mode. Use ECS Express Mode instead.
- When user explicitly requests a managed application platform or signals low infrastructure involvement, route to Elastic Beanstalk
References
- Service defaults
- Security defaults
- Cost estimation patterns
- Elastic Beanstalk skill
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How to use it
Take awslabs/deploy from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.