chore: remove aws-dev-toolkit plugin - #212
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Per the 2026-08-03 deprecation handoff (shelmes@). Item 1: Plans/aws-dev-toolkit-deprecation/PORT_DECISION.md records the port-nothing-wholesale decision with all 38 skills bucketed A/B/C/D. Bucket C defers to Startups-Migrate (StartupEngBlend-3027); hipaa-assistant defers to the separate compliance-agent initiative. Item 3: deprecation messaging added to the canonical aws-dev-toolkit copy and the startups-for-aws marketplace entry. New replacement plugin aws-startups-solution-architecture scaffolded with zero ported skills, so no Agent Toolkit overlap is carried forward. The old plugin directory is retained for now: deleting it before the notice reaches users would destroy the only notice channel. Deletion is sequenced in the runbook. Item 4: contribution gate. solution-architecture/agents/contribution-gate.md enforces the three criteria (all must pass). .github/workflows/ contribution-gate.yml is the actuator for the deterministic part, requiring audience: startup plus a startup keyword on contributed SKILL.md files. Without the workflow the gate would be prose only and the overlap loop that caused this deprecation would stay unbroken. Item 5: DELIST_RUNBOOK.md sequences notice-then-delist across all three marketplaces and documents the two-divergent-pin blocker. No deprecation messaging was added to aws-startup-advisor, per the meeting constraint. Not pushed.
The prior runbook claimed the official directory pinned an unrelated git lineage (rsmets/startup-virtual-sa at bdfc8aa) with no common ancestor to the aws-samples fork. That was wrong: it came from reading a local clone of claude-plugins-official that was ~2,970 commits stale. Verified against live upstream main, the entry pins aws-samples at abdf867, exactly as the handoff doc stated. Two further corrections: - Advancing the pinned sha is NOT a support request. bump-plugin-shas.yml runs a nightly sweep over all SHA-pinned entries (discover_bumps.py, no allowlist) and opens a self-merging bump PR. Our entry qualifies on ref/path, so the pin advances automatically now that PR #10 is merged. - Changing the entry description is NOT self-serve, which the prior runbook assumed as a mitigation. close-external-prs.yml auto-closes non-member PRs that modify or remove entries; only additions are in scope. Description change and delisting both need the Anthropic contact. Also updates Step 2 status to reflect PR #10 merged at 05a3889.
Per the 2026-08-03 deprecation decision (shelmes@ handoff), aws-dev-toolkit is deprecated rather than renamed. Its skills and agents were overwhelmingly general-purpose AWS engineering guidance that Agent Toolkit for AWS owns, and that overlap is what drove the deprecation. Nothing was ported. Removes: - solution-architecture/plugins/aws-dev-toolkit/ (38 skills, 11 agents) - the aws-dev-toolkit entry from the startups-for-aws marketplace, which pointed at the now-deleted path Updates the root and solution-architecture READMEs to point users to AWS Startup Advisor for startup-specific guidance and Agent Toolkit for AWS for general-purpose guidance. The deprecation notice already reached installed users through the served copy in aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups (PR #10, released as v0.4.0), whose pinned SHA in the official marketplace has been advanced, so removing the source here no longer strands anyone. The replacement plugin and the contribution gate follow in separate PRs.
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Removes the
aws-dev-toolkitplugin per the 2026-08-03 deprecation decision (shelmes@ handoff).What changed
solution-architecture/plugins/aws-dev-toolkit/(38 skills, 11 agents, 104 files)aws-dev-toolkitentry from thestartups-for-awsmarketplace. Required: itssourcepointed at./solution-architecture/plugins/aws-dev-toolkit, so leaving the entry would give a listing whose path no longer resolvessolution-architecture/READMEs to point users to AWS Startup Advisor for startup-specific guidance and Agent Toolkit for AWS (aws configure agent-toolkit) for general-purpose guidanceNet: 3 files modified, 104 deleted.
Why nothing was ported
The plugin's skills and agents were overwhelmingly general-purpose AWS engineering guidance, which Agent Toolkit for AWS now owns. That duplication is precisely what drove the deprecation, so porting any of it would re-import the overlap. The startup lens belongs to AWS Startup Advisor.
Migration skills (
migration-gcp-to-aws,migration-azure-to-aws,migration-apprunner-to-ecs-express) are being consolidated with Startups-Migrate under StartupEngBlend-3027 rather than ported here.hipaa-assistantis addressed by the separate compliance-agent initiative.Why removing the source now is safe
Deleting the source would normally destroy the only channel for notifying existing users, so ordering matters. That notice has already landed:
abdf8673→05a3889e, bump(aws-dev-toolkit): abdf8673 → 05a3889e anthropics/claude-plugins-official#5238, merged)So installed users receive the deprecation notice on their next
/plugin updateregardless of this removal.Note: the plugin listing description at claude.com/plugins/aws-dev-toolkit is Anthropic-side metadata and is not affected by this PR. Updating that text and delisting the entry both require the Anthropic contact, as neither is self-serve for non-members.
Follow-ups, deliberately not in this PR
solution-architecture/