# remediating-with-aws-security-agent

Pulls AWS Security Agent scan results and helps patch discovered vulnerabilities. Useful when you need to triage penetration test findings directly in your repo.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1500 installs · ★ 3282
- 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/plugins/aws-agents-for-devsecops/skills/remediating-with-aws-security-agent/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/remediating-with-aws-security-agent

## What it does

This skill inspects your AWS account via the AWS CLI to locate Agent Space environments. It matches your local codebase to relevant penetration tests or code reviews using repository remotes and project manifests like `package.json` or `pyproject.toml`. The agent always asks for confirmation before exporting any scan.

All report data goes strictly into a local `.security-agent/` directory. The skill creates a `.gitignore` file inside that folder before saving anything. This guardrail keeps working attack scripts and sensitive reproduction steps out of Git history. Findings are retrieved in batches of up to 25 items, filtering out weak signals to keep only `HIGH` and `MEDIUM` confidence risks.

If your target scan has no jobs with `COMPLETED` status, the skill halts immediately. It will not parse in-progress runs. You must have finished security scans in AWS before starting remediation.

## Requirements
- Works with: AWS

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill remediating-with-aws-security-agent -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/remediating-with-aws-security-agent/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/remediating-with-aws-security-agent/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill remediating-with-aws-security-agent -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/remediating-with-aws-security-agent/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill remediating-with-aws-security-agent -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/remediating-with-aws-security-agent/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws remediating-with-aws-security-agent
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/remediating-with-aws-security-agent/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill remediating-with-aws-security-agent -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --path plugins/aws-agents-for-devsecops/skills/remediating-with-aws-security-agent
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/remediating-with-aws-security-agent/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill remediating-with-aws-security-agent -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/plugins/aws-agents-for-devsecops/skills/remediating-with-aws-security-agent/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- discover completed pentests and code reviews in AWS Security Agent
- export vulnerability details into a gitignored directory
- filter out low-confidence findings and false positives
- patch high-risk security flaws directly in the codebase

## Example prompts
- What vulnerabilities do we have in our latest AWS security scan?
- Export findings from AWS Security Agent and help fix high-risk issues
- Triage the pentest report and start fixing verified vulnerabilities

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

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````text
---
name: remediating-with-aws-security-agent
description: >-
  Pull AWS Security Agent findings (penetration tests and code reviews) and drive
  remediation. Use this whenever the user mentions Security Agent, security findings,
  pentest or penetration test results, code review findings, vulnerabilities found in
  their AWS account, "what did the security scan find", remediating or triaging security
  risks, or wants to start fixing reported vulnerabilities — even if they don't name the
  service explicitly. Trigger it for phrases like "get my security findings", "what
  vulnerabilities do we have", "let's fix the pentest results", or "triage the security
  report". The skill discovers scans, exports findings to a gitignored local directory
  (so sensitive exploit detail is never committed), produces a prioritized triage
  summary, and offers to start fixing the highest-risk issues.
---

# Security Agent Remediation

AWS Security Agent is a frontier agent that runs on-demand penetration tests and code
reviews against a customer's applications and reports verified security risks. This skill
takes you from "I have findings somewhere in AWS" to "I'm actively fixing the most
important ones," while keeping the sensitive exploit detail out of source control.

The flow has four stages, and they matter in order:

1. **Discover** which scans exist and how the account is configured (live, read-only).
2. **Export** the findings to a local gitignored directory.
3. **Triage** the findings into a prioritized, human-readable plan.
4. **Remediate** by offering to fix the highest-risk issues.

## Why the ordering and the guardrails matter

Findings contain working attack scripts, reproduction steps, file paths, and sometimes
leaked secrets or environment details. If that lands in a Git repo, a customer can
accidentally commit and publish a step-by-step exploit for their own production system.
So the non-negotiable rule is: **findings are written only to `.security-agent/`, and that
path is gitignored before anything is written.**

## Stage 1: Discover scans (live, read-only)

Find out what the account has. All commands are read-only `list-*` operations.

AWS Security Agent organizes data as a hierarchy — work down it:

```
Application (account + Region)
````
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