AWS Transform

by awslabs

AWS Transform 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 Transform

Copy AWS Transform 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-transform/skills/aws-transform ~/.claude/skills/aws-transform

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

What AWS Transform does

AWS Transform migrates, modernizes, and upgrades codebases to AWS. It analyzes repos for tech debt, security issues, and modernization opportunities such as .NET, COBOL, VMware, SQL Server, Java, Python, Node.js, and AWS SDK upgrades.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

AWS Transform

CRITICAL: Route Before Anything Else

STOP. Before reading files, analyzing code, or starting any workflow, identify the workload first, then route.

Step A: Identify the workload

Look for an explicit workload signal in the user's request — a named technology (.NET, VMware, SQL Server/Aurora/Oracle/MySQL, mainframe/COBOL), workload-specific terminology (Hyper-V, EC2 rehost, stored procs, CICS, JCL), or file/project signals already in the conversation. If no signal is present, treat the request as workload-unspecified.

Step B: Apply workload-specific routing

Workload-specific rules ALWAYS win over the keyword list in Step C. Do not let "analysis" or "tech debt" phrasing override these.

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

Frequently asked about AWS Transform

What else does awslabs publish alongside AWS Transform?
AWS Transform 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 AWS Transform 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 Transform compare to other DevOps skills?
AWS Transform ranks #512 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 Transform against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.