architect-for-startups

Startup-tailored AWS architecture advice for non-agent workloads, adjusted to the company's stage (pre-revenue through Series B+), team size, runway, and credits. Not for AI agents: deploying an AI agent on AWS, picking its runtime, or any agentic architecture is agent-advisor. Use when a founder wants guidance or a recommendation rather than code changes: which services to choose, how to plan or review an architecture, how to stretch credits and control cost, or how to prepare architecture for a fundraise or technical diligence. For an interactive discovery flow that scaffolds and writes the architecture into the codebase, use start-building-for-startups. Do not use for: writing or scaffolding code, factual AWS Activate / programs / credits lookups (see knowledge-base-for-startups), a single copy-paste prompt (see prompt-library-for-startups), or migration intent such as GCP-to-AWS, Azure-to-AWS, or Heroku-to-AWS (see the migration skills: `gcp-to-aws`, `azure-to-aws`, `heroku-to-aws`, `llm-to-bedrock`).

Agent Skill from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Copilot Studio

Passes documented load rules

No documented load rule failed.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Preview, Frontier tenants only

Passes documented load rules

No documented load rule failed.

An agent can have at most 8 skills. Custom skills aren't available in tenants that use Microsoft Purview Information Barriers.

Compatible isn't the same as safe. These verdicts only say whether a skill's files follow Microsoft's documented load rules. The checker reads files and never runs them, and it doesn't review what a skill or its scripts actually do. Read a skill's instructions and scripts before you add it to an agent.

Standards signals

Meets the agentskills.io required fields.

Frontmatter	Present and parsed Spec: frontmatter
name	Meets the spec (1-64 chars, a-z 0-9 hyphens) Spec: name
description	Present, 1-1,024 characters Spec: description
compatibility	Absent or under 500 characters Spec: compatibility
Name matches folder	Yes (`architect-for-startups`) Spec: name

Observed from the public SKILL.md at the commit above on 2026-10-23. Not a certification: AAIF and the Agent Skills project don't certify skills. Validate your own skill with skills-ref validate.

Source repo	aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
Path	plugins/aws-startup-advisor/skills/architect-for-startups/SKILL.md
Commit checked	`9ab50636d125`
Repo license	Apache-2.0
Files	35
Scripts	None
Instructions	13,625 characters
Deepest folder	1 below the skill folder
Rules version	2026-10-22

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