agentcore-patterns
Skill from awslabs/startups
Install
npx skills add awslabs/startups --skill agentcore-patterns
Runs the open skills CLI and installs the skill for your agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor …). Alternatively copy the skill folder into .claude/skills/ or upload it in Claude.ai under Settings → Skills.
As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official
/plugin install aws-startups-solution-architecture@startups-for-aws
This skill is part of the plugin “aws-startups-solution-architecture”. In Claude Code the plugin installs it together with the plugin’s other skills, commands and hooks.
What does the agentcore-patterns skill do?
Description from the SKILL.md in the source repository.
Questions about agentcore-patterns
What does the agentcore-patterns skill do?
This skill should be used when an automated agent's output is published under its own identity and carries weight in someone else's work, such as a reviewer whose verdict lands on a pull request, and the open question is how much authority it has actually earned. Covers which conclusions such an agent may state as settled and which it must hand to a person, why a verdict that moves between runs on unchanged input cannot be allowed to decide anything, handing an uncertain item to a human rather than discarding it, grounding each claim in something computed rather than recalled, and the published-state and recall behaviour that decides whether people keep reading the output or learn to skim it. It should also be used when such an agent is being ignored, contradicts itself between runs, or reports a state that nothing current supports. Not for measuring or improving an agent's own output quality, which belongs to aws-agents:agents-optimize, nor for building, deploying, or hardening an agent.
How do I install agentcore-patterns?
In a terminal: npx skills add awslabs/startups --skill agentcore-patterns. The skills CLI asks which agents to install it for. In Claude.ai you can upload the skill folder as a ZIP under Settings → Skills.
Which agents can use agentcore-patterns?
Skills use the open SKILL.md format, which Claude Code, Claude.ai, the Claude API, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other agents support.
Is agentcore-patterns safe to use?
Our automatic check found no risky patterns (piped shell scripts, hidden characters, secret access, prompt overrides). It is not a full audit – read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.
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