AWS Plugin Agents Guide

This guide provides comprehensive documentation for all AWS specialized agents available in the Developer Kit AWS Plugin.

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Available Agents
3. Agent Reference
4. Agent Selection Guide
5. See Also

Overview

The AWS Plugin provides 3 specialized agents for AWS architecture design, CloudFormation infrastructure as code, and AWS Well-Architected Framework review. These agents have deep expertise in AWS services and help with architecture design, infrastructure implementation, and best practices compliance.

Available Agents

Agent Reference

aws-solution-architect-expert

Purpose: Design scalable, secure, and cost-effective AWS cloud solutions.

When to use:

• Designing new AWS architectures from scratch
• Planning cloud migrations to AWS
• Architecting multi-region or hybrid solutions
• Designing serverless architectures (Lambda, Step Functions)
• Planning high availability and disaster recovery

Key Capabilities:

• AWS service selection and architecture design
• Well-Architected Framework application
• Cost optimization strategies
• Security and compliance design
• Performance and scalability planning

aws-architecture-review-expert

Purpose: Review existing AWS architectures against Well-Architected Framework pillars.

When to use:

• Reviewing existing AWS architectures
• Validating against Well-Architected Framework
• Identifying architectural risks and anti-patterns
• Optimizing AWS costs and resource usage
• Improving security and compliance posture

Key Capabilities:

• Well-Architected Framework review (all 6 pillars)
• Security best practices validation
• Cost optimization recommendations
• Performance efficiency analysis
• Operational excellence assessment
• Reliability and resilience evaluation

aws-cloudformation-devops-expert

Purpose: Build, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation.

When to use:

• Creating CloudFormation templates from scratch
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code best practices
• Automating AWS deployments
• Managing CloudFormation stacks
• Building CI/CD pipelines for AWS infrastructure
• Migrating existing resources to CloudFormation

Key Capabilities:

• CloudFormation template design and optimization
• IaC best practices implementation
• Stack deployment and lifecycle management
• Resource orchestration patterns
• CI/CD pipeline integration (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline)
• Drift detection and management

Agent Selection Guide

How to Invoke Agents

1. Automatic Selection: Claude automatically selects the appropriate agent based on task context
2. Direct Invocation: Use agent name in conversation (e.g., "Ask the aws-solution-architect-expert...")
3. Tool Selection: When using the Task tool, specify the subagent_type parameter

See Also

• CloudFormation Skills Guide - Infrastructure as Code patterns
• AWS CLI Skills Guide - Advanced command line operations
• AWS SAM Bootstrap Guide - Serverless Application Model
• Cost Optimization Guide - AWS cost management
• Core Agent Guide - All agents across plugins
• Java AWS Skills Guide - AWS SDK for Java