steering-workflow-creatorlisted
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