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On Aug 7, 2026, AWS shipped aws-auth as a core Cognito skill in the Agent Toolkit—603 installs on skills.sh within days, 9 reference packs under skills/core-skills/aws-auth, and a hard warning that update-user-pool-client is a full replace.
July 2026 refresh of May’s production-impacting AWS launches — MCP Server + Agent Toolkit GA (us-east-1 / eu-central-1), SAP MCP on AgentCore, next-gen Resilience Hub, Scheduler SDK expansions, HealthLake CMS-0057-F.
The official aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws repo ships 43 atomic Agent Skills across 13 category folders—plus aws-core, aws-agents, and aws-data-analytics plugins. Here is why that bundle matters for IAM and audit posture, how the tree fits together, and how to pair it with the May 6, 2026 GA AWS MCP Server.
On May 6, 2026, AWS made its managed MCP server generally available in 2 regions—with IAM guardrails, CloudWatch metrics, and CloudTrail logging—while the March 25, 2026 Agent Plugin for AWS Serverless brought packaged SAM/CDK skills into Cursor and Claude Code.