Working with Threat Composer from the Toolkit - AWS Toolkit for VS Code
Accessing Threat Composer from the Toolkit

Working with Threat Composer from the Toolkit

With Threat Composer you can create, view, and edit Threat Composer threat models directly in VS Code. For detailed information about the Threat Composer tool, see the Threat Composer GitHub repository.

The following sections describe how to access Threat Composer tools in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.

Accessing Threat Composer from the Toolkit

There are 3 main ways that you can access Threat Composer from the Toolkit.

Accessing Threat Composer through an existing threat model

To open Threat Composer, open an existing threat-model file (extension .tc.json) in VS Code. Threat Composer automatically opens and renders a visualization of your threat-model file in the VS Code editor window.

Creating a new Threat Composer threat model

  1. From the VS Code main menu, expand File, then choose New File.

  2. From the New File dialog, choose Threat Composer File....

  3. When prompted, enter a file name, then press the enter key to open Threat Composer and create a visualization of your empty threat-model file in a new VS Code editor window.

Creating a new Threat Composer threat model from the Command Palette

  1. From VS Code, open the Command Palette by pressing Cmd + Shift + P or Ctrl + Shift + P (Windows).

  2. In the search field, enter Threat Composer and choose Create New Threat Composer File when it populates in the results.

  3. When prompted, enter a file name, then press the enter key to open Threat Composer and create a visualization of your empty threat-model file in a new VS Code editor window.