# amazon-eventbridge-event-bus

A skill for building and debugging apps on the new EventBridge custom event buses. Useful when events fan out to subscribers and some never arrive.

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- Author: aws
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/HEAD/skills/specialized-skills/serverless-skills/amazon-eventbridge-event-bus/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/amazon-eventbridge-event-bus

## What it does

The skill walks an agent through the new EventBridge custom event buses — the ones you reach with the `eventsv2` CLI and the `eventbridgev2` SDK clients. It covers writing filters, transformers and target parameters, publishing events, and figuring out why a delivery failed.

Bundled reference files load on demand: end-to-end bus setup in one account or shared across accounts with AWS RAM, CLI and SDK samples in Python, Java and TypeScript, both delivered envelopes in full, the `CreateSubscriber` contract, migration from classic EventBridge, authorization, and replay. One chapter is about subscriber logs, which are off by default while publish metrics are on. Turn them on before you debug a delivery, not after — otherwise you are guessing.

There is a catch in how the skill loads. Fetch it through the AWS MCP `retrieve_skill` tool and its files are not on disk: you must pull each one with the same tool and the `file` parameter. Install it locally and you read relative paths from the skill directory. Also worth knowing: the two publish APIs deliver different payload shapes, and an expression written for one silently matches nothing against the other. The author recommends reading chapters 5 and 6 before writing any filter or transformer.

## Requirements
- Works with: AWS

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill amazon-eventbridge-event-bus -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/amazon-eventbridge-event-bus/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/amazon-eventbridge-event-bus/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill amazon-eventbridge-event-bus -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/amazon-eventbridge-event-bus/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill amazon-eventbridge-event-bus -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/amazon-eventbridge-event-bus/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws amazon-eventbridge-event-bus
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/amazon-eventbridge-event-bus/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill amazon-eventbridge-event-bus -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --path skills/specialized-skills/serverless-skills/amazon-eventbridge-event-bus
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/amazon-eventbridge-event-bus/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill amazon-eventbridge-event-bus -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/HEAD/skills/specialized-skills/serverless-skills/amazon-eventbridge-event-bus/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- write a filter so a subscriber only gets orders over $500
- find out why a published event never reached the queue
- pick between PutEvents and PutRawEvents for Protobuf payloads
- set up a subscriber that reprocesses the last two days
- pull a customer id out of an event into a DynamoDB putItem with JSONata

## Example prompts
- Write a filter so this subscriber only gets orders over $500.
- My producer says PUBLISHED but nothing shows up in the queue. What do I check?
- Should I use PutEvents or PutRawEvents for Protobuf payloads?

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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name: amazon-eventbridge-event-bus
description: Builds, runs, debugs, and operates event-driven applications using EventBridge Event Bus - a managed, centrally governed publish/subscribe event bus that an organization can share across many teams and accounts. Applicable when workloads need event-driven architectures, decoupling, choreography, asynchronous integration, pub/sub, fan-out, event ordering, delivered in sequence, event router, event broker, event bus, event store, event retention, event replay, deduplication, avro, protobuf, cloudevents, uses events or messages. Designed as a centrally managed event bus platform allowing governance and control - such as subscriber control, revocation, per-account throttling - while giving application owners flexibility across an organization spanning multiple accounts, with end-to-end open-standards observability and cost allocation. Also helps reduce costs in high fan-out scenarios where multi-account forwarding adds cost. A serverless, managed alternative to self-managed event streaming platforms.
version: 2
---

# Building with the new EventBridge custom event buses

## Overview

The new EventBridge custom event bus routes events and retains them. You publish with
one of two APIs, and subscribers filter, optionally transform, and deliver each matching event to one target.

**Read chapters 5 and 6 before writing any filter, transformer, or target parameter.** The two publish APIs
deliver different payload shapes, and an expression written for one silently matches nothing against the
other.

Publish metrics are on by default, so you can always tell whether events reached a bus. Subscriber logs
are **off** by default, so turn them on before you debug a delivery rather than after (chapter 18).

**Works best with** the [AWS MCP server](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-mcp/), which is recommended for
running the CLI calls in this skill: it executes them in a sandboxed environment with audit logging. All
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