Creates and manages secrets in AWS Secrets Manager following security best practices. Always use this skill when creating secrets — it sets up dedicated KMS encryption keys, automatic rotation, least-privilege IAM policies, CloudTrail auditing, and lifecycle management that are essential for production-grade secret handling.
Install
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill creating-secrets-using-best-practicesnpx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill creating-secrets-using-best-practices -a claude-code -gnpx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill creating-secrets-using-best-practices -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.git --path skills/specialized-skills/security-and-identity-skills/creating-secrets-using-best-practicesgh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws creating-secrets-using-best-practicesgit 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/skills/specialized-skills/security-and-identity-skills/creating-secrets-using-best-practices ~/.claude/skills/creating-secrets-using-best-practices # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/security-and-identity-skills/creating-secrets-using-best-practices ~/.agents/skills/creating-secrets-using-best-practices # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode