Amazon API Gateway

by awslabs

Amazon API Gateway is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by awslabs in agent-plugins.

867 stars145 forkson awslabs/agent-pluginsAdded 2026/08/22Repository updated 2026/08/21

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Install Amazon API Gateway

Copy Amazon API Gateway into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/awslabs/agent-plugins/tree/main/plugins/aws-serverless/skills/api-gateway ~/.claude/skills/api-gateway

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/awslabs/agent-plugins.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/aws-serverless/skills/api-gateway/SKILL.md in awslabs/agent-plugins
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/api-gateway
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Amazon API Gateway does

Amazon API Gateway helps you build, manage, and troubleshoot REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs on AWS. Use it when working with custom domains, authorizers, usage plans, throttling, CORS, private APIs, or API Gateway IaC templates.

Amazon API Gateway is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Amazon API Gateway comes from a repository tagged agent-plugins, agent-skills, agents, aws and coding-agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Amazon API Gateway Development

Expert guidance for building, managing, governing, and operating APIs with Amazon API Gateway. Covers REST APIs (v1), HTTP APIs (v2), and WebSocket APIs.

How to Use This Skill

When answering API Gateway questions:

Read the relevant reference file(s) before responding, do not rely solely on this summary
For tasks spanning multiple concerns (e.g., "private API with mTLS and custom domain"), read all relevant references
When the user needs IaC templates, consult references/sam-cloudformation.md or references/sam-service-integrations.md and provide complete, working SAM/CloudFormation YAML
Always mention relevant pitfalls and limits that affect the user's design

Quick Decision: Which API Type?

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Amazon API Gateway provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/ping
/sping

Frequently asked about Amazon API Gateway

What else does awslabs publish alongside Amazon API Gateway?
Amazon API Gateway is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from awslabs/agent-plugins, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AWS Architecture Diagram, AWS Lambda and AWS Lambda Durable Functions. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Amazon API Gateway does, and is maintained by awslabs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the awslabs/agent-plugins page.
How does Amazon API Gateway compare to other DevOps skills?
Amazon API Gateway ranks #503 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Amazon API Gateway against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.