[ aws . configure ]

agent-toolkit

Description

Set up AI coding agents with AWS skills and the AWS MCP Server.

Supported agents are determined by the presence of configuration directories, such as ~/.kiro. Skills are installed globally in those configuration directories, not per project.

Synopsis

aws configure agent-toolkit

Options

None

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command’s default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

• json
• text
• table
• yaml
• yaml-stream
• off

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

• on
• off
• auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-binary-format (string)

The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.

• base64
• raw-in-base64-out

--no-cli-pager (boolean)

Disable cli pager for output.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Disable automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

--cli-error-format (string)

The formatting style for error output. By default, errors are displayed in enhanced format.

• legacy
• json
• yaml
• text
• table
• enhanced

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To set up AI coding agents with AWS skills and the AWS MCP Server

The following agent-toolkit example runs the interactive setup wizard. It detects installed AI coding agents, installs default AWS skills, and configures the AWS MCP Server connection.

aws configure agent-toolkit

Output:

Detecting installed AI coding agents...
  [x] Kiro
  [ ] Claude Code (not found)
  [ ] Cursor (not found)

Select agents to configure
> [x] Kiro

Fetching default AWS skills...
  Found: aws-serverless, aws-cdk, aws-iam

Install 3 default AWS skills? [Y/n]: Y

Installing 3 default AWS skills...
  [1/3] aws-serverless
  [2/3] aws-cdk
  [3/3] aws-iam

Skills installed to:
  Kiro: /Users/username/.kiro/skills

Configure AWS MCP server connection? [Y/n]: Y

AWS MCP server configured for:
  [x] Kiro: updated /Users/username/.kiro/settings/mcp.json

You can discover additional skills with 'aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query <query>'

For more information, see Getting started with the AWS Agent Toolkit in the AWS Agent Toolkit User Guide.