What is APEX
APEX — Agentic Platform Engineering eXperience — is how we teach platform engineering through AI coding agents. It's a curated set of skills authored by AWS Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, and ProServe consultants, delivered through any agentic harness compatible with the Agent Skills open standard (Claude Code, Kiro CLI, and others).
Each skill is a self-contained folder of instructions, scripts, and references that a frontier LLM can discover and load on demand. Together they compress onboarding from months to weeks by giving engineers expert-grade output for the decisions they're already making.
What's in this repo
| Directory | Purpose |
|---|---|
skills/ | Reusable domain knowledge (the agent's brain) |
steering/ | Phased engagement playbooks that combine skills (the SA's playbook) |
examples/ | Hands-on labs to try APEX against real workloads |
misc/ | Maintenance scripts, evaluations, and this docs site |
Key principle: Skills provide the knowledge. Steering provides the structure.
Where to go next
- Getting Started — install APEX in Claude Code or Kiro CLI.
- Skills — browse the catalog.
- Steering — phased workflows that combine multiple skills.
- Contributing — add or improve a skill.