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steering-workflow-creatorlisted

Author a new steering workflow for any AWS service and pair it with a matching slash-command shim. Use when the user asks to create a steering workflow, add a workflow to apex, standardize steering, write a new workflow for EKS / RDS / Lambda / IAM / any AWS service, or build a phased playbook that plugs into a service hub. Covers the convention (frontmatter, header block, required sections), tool routing (knowledge vs. live MCP vs. setup-bridge), and the lint pass before handoff.
aws-samples/sample-apex-skills · ★ 37 · AI & Automation · score 73
Install: claude install-skill aws-samples/sample-apex-skills
# Steering Workflow Creator A meta-skill for authoring steering workflows — the phased playbooks under `steering/workflows/` that an agent reads top to bottom to conduct a structured engagement (design review, upgrade, cost review, and the like). This skill teaches you how to write one. It is not itself a workflow — don't follow it to review a cluster or upgrade anything. The repo targets every AWS service over time. EKS is the bootstrap domain, not the target. The convention and the routing tree below are deliberately service-agnostic; an EKS worked example lives at `@references/examples/eks.md` only to show the shape, not to pin the pattern to one service. ## When to use this skill Most tasks that sound like "add something to steering" are actually one of two very different things. Pick the right one before you start — the cost of discovering the answer after you've written 300 lines is high. **Decision matrix — is this a skill or a steering workflow?** | Signal in the user's ask | Build a skill | Build a workflow | |---|---|---| | Static domain knowledge, best practices, reference material | yes | no | | Phased engagement with STOP gates and user checkpoints | no | yes | | Tied to a specific lifecycle stage (Day 0 / 1 / 2) | no | yes | | Mutation with an access model and blast-radius contract | no | yes | | Reusable from many different workflows | yes | no | | The output is an opinionated report for a human to act on | usually no | yes | If the ask fits both columns