APEX Skills
Platform engineering with agents — curated AWS skills delivered through your AI coding agent
Why Platform Engineers Use APEX Skills
Agent-native skills
Built for the agentskills.io spec. Load a skill and your AI coding agent gains deep AWS platform-engineering knowledge — no plugins, no configuration.
Phased steering workflows
Combine skills into ordered sequences with guardrails, tool routing, and handoff criteria. The agent follows a structured path through complex multi-step tasks.
Community-driven, AWS-backed
Authored by AWS Solutions Architects, TAMs, and ProServe. MIT-0 licensed. Contribute your own skills or fork and customize.
Featured Platform Engineering Skills
EKS Design
Architecture design documents with Mermaid diagrams, ADRs, security architecture, and validation reports. Translates requirements into tailored EKS designs guided by Well-Architected best practices.
EKS Build
Generate production-ready EKS Terraform projects with optional ArgoCD GitOps. Handles air-gapped networks, enterprise proxies, compliance requirements, and 29+ addon configurations.
EKS Upgrade Check
Automated readiness assessment across 8 categories — deprecated APIs, add-on compatibility, node health, workload risks — producing a 0–100 score with prioritized remediation.
EKS Operation Review
Structured operational excellence assessment covering 10 areas with GREEN/AMBER/RED ratings and prioritized recommendations for production clusters.
EKS Platform Engineering
Internal Developer Platform design — Backstage portal, ArgoCD delivery, progressive rollouts with Kargo, infrastructure abstraction, golden paths, and DORA measurement.
EKS Best Practices
Architecture and design guidance — compute strategy with Karpenter and Auto Mode, multi-tenant isolation, VPC planning, Pod Identity, upgrade strategies, and cost optimization.
EKS Reconnaissance
Cluster discovery and environment mapping. Detects compute strategy, IaC tooling, CI/CD pipelines, add-on inventory, networking topology, security posture, and observability automatically.
EKS MCP Server
Live cluster operations via Model Context Protocol. List clusters, read Kubernetes resources, troubleshoot pods, deploy workloads, and check upgrade insights in real time.
How APEX Skills Work with Your AI Coding Agent
Install
npx apex-skills
Ask your agent
The agent loads the skill context automatically when relevant.
Ship with confidence
Platform-engineering best practices applied directly to your infrastructure.
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