aws-amplify

Creates and automates custom image builds with EC2 Image Builder - Linux, Windows, and macOS AMIs, and container images to ECR. Covers the build IAM role, Amazon-managed and custom components, image recipes, infrastructure and distribution configuration (launch templates, SSM parameters, other Regions), one-off builds, recurring scheduled pipelines for golden AMI automation and OS patching, custom image workflows, and diagnosing failed builds. Applies when creating, automating, or scheduling AMI or container image builds with Image Builder, or when debugging a failed build. Not for launching instances from existing AMIs, AMI lifecycle/retirement, or general EC2 fleet management.

Designs, deploys, reviews, evaluates, audits, and troubleshoots video streaming workflows across AWS media services (MediaConnect, MediaLive, MediaConvert, MediaPackage v2, MediaTailor, CloudFront). Includes per-service validation rules, cross-service workflow patterns for live streaming, linear channels, VOD pipelines, and live-to-VOD, service-specific troubleshooting, best practices assessment, cost optimization, encoder settings, DRM, SCTE-35 ad insertion, epoch locking, and CDN cache configuration.

Connects AI agents to remote Windows desktop applications on Amazon WorkSpaces Applications (AppStream 2.0) through the managed Agent Access MCP server, and guides reliable desktop automation. Covers connecting an agent to the MCP endpoint (SigV4, streaming URL, and Active Directory SAML/Domain Join), BLOCKING vs POLLING connect modes, the computer-use tools (screenshot, click, type, key, scroll), screenshot-budget and action-batching discipline, MCP tool forwarding (forwarded___ tools), session lifecycle and expire-on-delete, and troubleshooting connection errors. Use when building or debugging an agent that drives a remote Windows desktop or GUI application via WorkSpaces Applications / AppStream — including "dcv session not ready", "client_disconnected", 400 signing-region, POLLING/connection_status, SAML assertion, or forwarded tool questions. Not for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal/Core virtual desktops or general AppStream fleet administration unrelated to agent access.

Configures EC2 instances to securely call AWS services by creating and attaching IAM roles via instance profiles, eliminating hardcoded credentials. Use when an EC2 instance needs permissions to access AWS services like S3, DynamoDB, SQS, or CloudWatch through temporary credentials.

Launches an EC2 instance with secure, cost-efficient defaults including AMI selection, burstable instance sizing, least-privilege IAM roles, hardened security groups, encrypted EBS volumes, and comprehensive tagging. Use when deploying new EC2 instances following AWS best practices for security and cost optimization.

Provides connectivity, authentication, and troubleshooting guidance for Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Applicable when users ask about SSMS times out connecting from EC2, Cannot generate SSPI context with Windows auth, connect RDS SQL Server from Lambda with pymssql, auth_scheme shows NTLM instead of KERBEROS on ECS Fargate, SSM tunnel to RDS SQL Server from laptop, port 1433 security group, TrustServerCertificate=True for localhost tunnels, SPN MSSQLSvc, AWS Managed Microsoft AD, CNAME not RDS endpoint for Kerberos, tds_version='7.4', encryption='require', port-as-string for pymssql, Secrets Manager credential caching in Lambda, error 18456 login failed. Covers Python (pymssql, pyodbc), .NET (Microsoft.Data.SqlClient), Java (JDBC mssql-jdbc), Node.js (tedious), IAM auth via RDS Proxy, and VPC/ECS/EKS/Lambda deployment.

Diagnoses and resolves Amazon RDS for Oracle connectivity, authentication, networking, and driver troubleshooting. Applicable to any RDS-for-Oracle question including connecting a Python Lambda to RDS Oracle in a VPC with pooling and cold-start optimization, EKS pods to RDS Oracle via the Secrets Manager CSI driver with IRSA and SecretProviderClass, ORA-12170 cross-VPC timeouts from EC2, DPI-1047 cannot-locate-64-bit-Oracle-Client errors, and Oracle Connection Manager (CMAN) on EC2 as a proxy with HA across two AZs. Covers python-oracledb thin vs thick mode, init_oracle_client, RDS Proxy does NOT support RDS Oracle, port 1521, VPC peering, Transit Gateway, Kerberos with AWS Managed Microsoft AD, SSL/TLS/NNE, SSM port forwarding, EC2/ECS Fargate/EKS/Lambda, SQL Developer/DBeaver/Toad/SQLcl, and Secrets Manager.

Advises on Amazon RDS open-source engines (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL) for instance creation, upgrade planning, commitment pricing, proxy evaluation, and Blue/Green deployments. Handles any RDS MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL question, including create a production-ready RDS MySQL instance, provision an RDS PostgreSQL database, run the RDS upgrade advisor for my RDS MySQL instance, what are my upgrade options, upgrade RDS MariaDB from 10.6 to the latest version, should I buy reserved instances or a savings plan for db.r7g.2xlarge RDS MySQL, change a VARCHAR to INT column on RDS MySQL 8.0 with Blue/Green, and does RDS Proxy help when PgBouncer already runs in transaction mode. Covers instance creation with production best practices, describe-db-instances and describe-db-engine-versions upgrade-target workflow, live prechecks via SSM or direct connection, RI versus DSP commitment pricing, RDS Proxy versus PgBouncer, and Blue/Green lifecycle with binlog replay compatibility.

Guidance for distinctive, intentional visual design when building new UI or reshaping an existing one. Helps with aesthetic direction, typography, and making choices that don't read as templated defaults.

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Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question. Use when the user wants to sanity-check whether a state model or logic feels right, or explore what a UI should look like.

React and Next.js performance optimization guidelines from Vercel Engineering. This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React/Next.js code to ensure optimal performance patterns. Triggers on tasks involving React components, Next.js pages, data fetching, bundle optimization, or performance improvements.

Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance. Use when asked to "review my UI", "check accessibility", "audit design", "review UX", or "check my site against best practices".

tasteskill 2.5.1, the anti-slop frontend skill. Builds professional company websites at the level of figma.com and x.ai: plain copy in a voice of its own, one system, one section per screen, equal edges, real photographs and real product UI (licensed stand-in photographs when the client has none; a product render only when the brief asks for 3D), a hero entrance and one or two dealt moments on every page, shader effects and scenes only on tech, gaming and software pages, quiet micro-interactions, and a checker and finish gate that enforce it in a real browser. Use this whenever you build, design, redesign, restyle, polish or review a landing page, company, product, shop, cafe, hotel, studio, SaaS, AI, developer-tool or game site, as static HTML/CSS or inside an existing React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, Astro or Tailwind project, or when the user says a page looks generic, templated or "AI-made".

React composition patterns that scale. Use when refactoring components with boolean prop proliferation, building flexible component libraries, or designing reusable APIs. Triggers on tasks involving compound components, render props, context providers, or component architecture. Includes React 19 API changes.

UI/UX design intelligence for web, mobile, and desktop. This skill should be used when designing, building, reviewing, or fixing interfaces, including pages, components, design systems, accessibility, interaction, responsive layout, typography, color, charts, and stack-specific UI implementation. Searchable local data: 80 searchable styles (51 active), 192 product palettes and reasoning profiles, 74 font pairings, 120 UX guidelines, 105 icons, 17 GSAP presets, 25 chart types, and 22 stacks.