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Getting started with an AI coding agent - AWS Emulator
To install the skill

Getting started with an AI coding agent

The aws-emulator skill teaches your AI coding agent how to work with AWS Emulator. With the skill, your agent can do the following for you:

  • Install the emulator, using the Linux package or Docker, depending on your operating system

  • Start the emulator, and point the AWS CLI or your AWS SDK at it

  • Fix connection, certificate, and signing errors

  • Check whether your project is expected to work on the emulator. For more information, see Checking whether your project works with AWS Emulator.

The skill uses the same steps that this guide describes for the Linux package and Docker paths. Before your agent writes outside its working folders, such as when it runs sudo or edits your shell profile, it asks you first.

To install the skill

  1. Check that you have the AWS CLI version 2.35.0 or later.

    aws --version

  2. Install the skill. The following command installs it for all the AI coding agents that the AWS CLI finds on your machine, such as Kiro, Cursor, and Claude Code.

    aws agent-toolkit add-skill --skill-name aws-emulator --region us-east-1

    For more information, see Managing skills with the AWS CLI in the Agent Toolkit for AWS User Guide.

  3. Ask your agent to set up the emulator. For example, ask "Install AWS Emulator and point my project at it."