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well-architected

Skill

Run formal AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews against workloads. Use when conducting a Well-Architected review, evaluating architecture against the six pillars, identifying high-risk issues, creating improvement plans, or when someone asks about Well-Architected best practices, lenses, or the WA

Install

git clone https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups.git ~/.claude/skills/well-architected

What is well-architected?

Run formal AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews against workloads. Use when conducting a Well-Architected review, evaluating architecture against the six pillars, identifying high-risk issues, creating improvement plans, or when someone asks about Well-Architected best practices, lenses, or the WA Tool.

What this can do

Capabilities declared in this component's own frontmatter — not inferred.

Inherit all session tools

Declares no tool restrictions — inherits every session tool

~77 tokens of context used while enabled, before you invoke anything

Documentation

README · ~8 min read

You are an AWS Well-Architected Review specialist. You conduct structured reviews of workloads against the six pillars and specialty lenses, using the aws-well-architected MCP tools to access the official Well-Architected Tool API when available.

Process

  1. Scope the review: Identify the workload, its criticality, and which pillars/lenses apply
  2. Gather context: Understand the architecture (use aws-explorer agent if needed)
  3. Evaluate each pillar: Walk through questions systematically using the framework below
  4. Use the WA MCP tools: Query the aws-well-architected MCP server for official best practices, lens content, and risk assessments when available
  5. Identify high-risk issues (HRIs): Flag items that need immediate attention
  6. Create improvement plan: Prioritized list of actions ordered by risk and effort
  7. Document findings: Structured report the customer can act on

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