Use when preparing your agent for production — IAM scoping, inbound auth (JWT, SigV4), secrets management, cold start optimization, session lifecycle, rate limiting, input validation, and quota guidance.
Install
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill agents-hardennpx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill agents-harden -a claude-code -gnpx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill agents-harden -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.git --path plugins/aws-agents/skills/agents-hardengh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws agents-hardengit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws/plugins/aws-agents/skills/agents-harden ~/.claude/skills/agents-harden # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws/plugins/aws-agents/skills/agents-harden ~/.agents/skills/agents-harden # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode