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iam from itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills/iam@git:20260108.5b66f5cPins git:20260108.5b66f5c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills
- Path
skills/iam/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260108.5b66f5c, committed Jan 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 7, 2026
- Size
- 7,075 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,171
- License
- MIT
AWS Identity and Access Management for users, roles, policies, and permissions. Use when creating IAM policies, configuring cross-account access, setting up service roles, troubleshooting permission errors, or managing access control.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# AWS IAM AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables secure access control to AWS services and resources. IAM is foundational to AWS security—every AWS API call is authenticated and authorized through IAM. ## Table of Contents - [Core Concepts](#core-concepts) - [Common Patterns](#common-patterns) - [CLI Reference](#cli-reference) - [Best Practices](#best-practices) - [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) - [References](#references) ## Core Concepts ### Principals Entities that can make requests to AWS: IAM users, roles, federated users, and applications. ### Policies JSON documents defining permissions. Types: - **Identity-based**: Attached to users, groups, or roles - **Resource-based**: Attached to resources (S3 buckets, SQS queues) - **Permission boundaries**: Maximum permissions an identity can have - **Service control policies (SCPs)**: Organization-wide limits ### Roles Identities with permissions that can be assumed by trusted entities. No permanent credentials—uses temporary security tokens. ### Trust Relationships Define which principals can assume a role. Configured via the role's trust policy. ## Common Patterns ### Create a Service Role for Lambda …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills/iam@sha256:f30817982d345413The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260108.5b66f5c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_v4f3ib4vqgyz3353)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jan 7, 2026 and Jan 8, 2026, more than one a day.
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| git:20260108.5b66f5c latest | 2026-01-08 | 5b66f5c | 7,075 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260107.f8d4331 | 2026-01-07 | f8d4331 | 6,986 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7075 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills · 1,171 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_v4f3ib4vqgyz3353 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills/iam GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f30817982d3454139e3eecbf930f347ffd1b79c4e8a6cef851f75c5e8e02a1d7
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.