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Ec2

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itsmostafa·vlatest·cloud·MIT

This skill automates EC2 instance creation and management, simplifying cloud infrastructure setup and reducing operational overhead.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills --skill ec2 -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

itsmostafa

Taken from the source listing. We haven't verified who controls this account.

Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill failed 2 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: 169.254.169.254.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    169.254.169.254undeclared

    What it found (3 of 5)

    • skills/ec2/instance-management.md:212contacts 169.254.169.254
      TOKEN=$(curl -X PUT "http://169.254.169.254/latest/api/token" \
    • skills/ec2/instance-management.md:217contacts 169.254.169.254
      http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id
    • skills/ec2/instance-management.md:220contacts 169.254.169.254
      http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/my-role

  • No credential access: failed

    Touches credential material in 1 place.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

    What it found

    • skills/ec2/instance-management.md:171SSH private keys or config
      --ssh-public-key file://~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills at e786d25128.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
e786d25128
Manifest
skills/ec2/SKILL.md
Scanned
3 files, 861 lines
This is a static scan, not a review. It reads the skill's files; it does not run them, and it cannot tell you whether the skill is any good or whether the code does what its description says. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent.
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About this skill

What it does

The ec2 skill allows AI agents to interact with Amazon EC2 instances. It enables users to manage their virtual servers, including starting, stopping, and retrieving information about them. This skill provides a programmatic interface for common EC2 operations, simplifying cloud infrastructure management.

When to use it

  • Automated Server Management: Schedule regular backups or maintenance tasks on your EC2 instances.
  • Dynamic Scaling: Automatically spin up new servers based on demand and shut down idle ones to optimize costs.
  • Troubleshooting: Quickly retrieve instance status, logs, and other diagnostic information when issues arise.
  • Infrastructure Provisioning: Create and configure new EC2 instances as part of a larger deployment process.

Key capabilities

  • Start EC2 instances
  • Stop EC2 instances
  • Retrieve EC2 instance details

Example prompts

  • "Start my web server EC2 instance."
  • "What is the status of my database server?"
  • "Stop all idle EC2 instances in the production environment."

Tips & gotchas

Requires AWS credentials to be configured for the AI agent. Ensure proper IAM permissions are granted to allow the skill to perform actions on your EC2 resources.