Aws Cdk Development

This one's for when you're writing infrastructure as code with AWS CDK in TypeScript or Python. It comes bundled with MCP servers that pull fresh AWS documentation and CDK-specific guidance, which is genuinely useful since AWS changes constantly. The skill emphasizes letting CDK auto-generate resource names instead of hardcoding them, a practice that prevents deployment conflicts and makes your stacks actually reusable. It includes pre-deployment validation using cdk-nag to catch security and compliance issues before they hit production, plus hooks that verify your AWS account context before you accidentally deploy to the wrong place. Good for both greenfield infrastructure and refactoring existing CDK projects.

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$ npx -y skills add zxkane/aws-skills --skill aws-cdk-development --agent claude-code

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AWS CDK Development

This skill provides comprehensive guidance for developing AWS infrastructure using the Cloud Development Kit (CDK), with integrated MCP servers for accessing latest AWS knowledge and CDK utilities.

AWS Documentation Requirement

Always verify AWS facts using MCP tools (mcp__aws-mcp__* or mcp__*awsdocs*__*) before answering. The aws-mcp-setup dependency is auto-loaded — if MCP tools are unavailable, guide the user through that skill's setup flow.

CDK-Specific MCP Guidance

AWS Labs replaced the dedicated CDK MCP server (awslabs.cdk-mcp-server) with the broader awslabs.aws-iac-mcp-server, which covers CDK alongside CloudFormation and other AWS infrastructure-as-code workflows.

For CDK construct lookups, best-practice recommendations, and pattern guidance, install awslabs.aws-iac-mcp-server. It ships in the deploy-on-aws plugin from awslabs/agent-plugins, or can be registered directly with claude mcp add aws-iac uvx awslabs.aws-iac-mcp-server@latest.

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