agent-bom-discover-aws

Use this skill to collect AWS AI and workload inventory from the operator's environment as canonical inventory. The skill is discover-only by default: write schema-valid JSON to an operator-selected path and stop. Run agent-bom only when the operator explicitly wants findings, graph, policy, or exports from that inventory.

Guardrails

• Use only operator-approved AWS profiles, roles, or short-lived STS sessions.
• Prefer read-only IAM actions listed by agent-bom trust or /v1/discovery/providers.
• Do not request or display raw AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, or bearer tokens.
• Do not modify AWS resources. This workflow is discovery-only.
• Write inventory only to a path the operator chose.
• Treat AI-generated prose as non-authoritative; only the schema-validated inventory JSON is evidence.

Modes

Mode	What happens	Data boundary
discover-only	Emit canonical inventory JSON and stop	No agent-bom scan or API handoff
scan-local	Run agent-bom scan --inventory ... on the generated file	Local handoff into the scanner
export	Write JSON/SARIF or another operator-selected output	Local output only unless the operator routes it elsewhere

Use discover-only unless the operator asks for scan results or an export.

Workflow

1. Confirm the AWS account/region/profile and intended services.
2. Generate inventory with the repository adapter and stop:

python examples/operator_pull/aws_inventory_adapter.py \
  --region us-east-1 \
  --profile readonly-audit \
  --source aws-skill-invoked \
  --discovery-method skill_invoked_pull \
  --output aws-inventory.json

3. If the operator asks for findings, scan the generated inventory locally:

agent-bom scan --inventory aws-inventory.json

4. If the operator asks for an export, write it to an operator-selected path:

agent-bom scan --inventory aws-inventory.json --format json --output agent-bom-aws-findings.json

Optional Service Flags

Start narrow, then expand deliberately:

python examples/operator_pull/aws_inventory_adapter.py \
  --region us-east-1 \
  --profile readonly-audit \
  --source aws-skill-invoked \
  --discovery-method skill_invoked_pull \
  --include-ecs \
  --include-lambda \
  --include-eks \
  --output aws-inventory.json

Use --no-include-ecs or similar flags to disable default services when an operator wants a smaller scope.

Evidence Contract

The inventory emitted by this skill uses:

• source: aws-skill-invoked
• discovery_provenance.source_type: skill_invoked_pull
• discovery_provenance.observed_via: skill_invoked_pull, aws_sdk
• sanitized metadata.permissions_used
• sanitized cloud_origin, cloud_principal, lifecycle fields, packages, and MCP server launch metadata

If schema validation fails, stop and fix the inventory instead of scanning a best-effort or prose summary.

The skill does not push inventory to an API by default. Any push, scan, or managed control-plane handoff must be a separate operator-approved handoff command with the destination URL, auth method, and retained evidence classes made explicit.