AWS Lambda

by awslabs

AWS Lambda 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 AWS Lambda

Copy AWS Lambda 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/aws-lambda ~/.claude/skills/aws-lambda

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

What AWS Lambda does

AWS Lambda helps design, build, deploy, test, and debug serverless applications with AWS Lambda and related services. Use it for Lambda functions, event sources, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions, and other event-driven architectures.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

AWS Lambda Serverless Development

Design, build, deploy, and debug serverless applications with AWS serverless services. This skill provides access to serverless development guidance through the AWS Serverless MCP Server, helping you to build production-ready serverless applications with best practices built-in.

Use SAM CLI for project initialization and deployment, Lambda Web Adapter for web applications, or Event Source Mappings for event-driven architectures. AWS handles infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and monitoring automatically.

Key capabilities:

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

Commands AWS Lambda provides

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

/hooks

Frequently asked about AWS Lambda

What else does awslabs publish alongside AWS Lambda?
AWS Lambda 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 Durable Functions and AWS Lambda Managed Instances. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way AWS Lambda 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 AWS Lambda compare to other DevOps skills?
AWS Lambda ranks #506 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 AWS Lambda against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.