wa-guardrails
aws-samples/sample-well-architected-skills-and-steeringSkill
Generate preventive Well-Architected guardrails — AWS Config rules, Service Control Policies, permission boundaries, CloudWatch alarms, and IaC policy checks (CDK Aspects, cfn-guard, OPA/Sentinel) — plus an optional governance steering doc, so a workload stays aligned with Well-Architected best practices over time instead of being assessed once. Use when the user wants to enforce best practices in CI, prevent insecure or non-compliant configurations from shipping, detect configuration drift, codify the fixes from a Well-Architected review as ongoing controls, or capture standards as an always-
Why this score
This repo hosts 6 skills, so its 276 stars are split between them (about 46 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 66/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit e81835b1d159, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onewa-guardrails aws-samples/sample-well-architected-skills-and-steering · Skill | 66 | ★ 276 | ≈154 always | 29d ago |
| guardrail-tester RyanAlberts/best-of-Agent-Harnesses · Skill Both about guardrail and permission | 69 | ★ 1.3k | ≈22 always | 17d ago |
| speclock-guardrails sgroy10/speclock · Skill Both about guardrail | 56 | ★ 25 | ≈65 always | 3mo ago |
| sdlc-guardrails TsCarpe/claude-sdlc-skills · Skill Both about guardrail and enforce | 56 | ★ 64 | ≈136 always | 17d ago |
| ai-coding-guardrails OneWave-AI/claude-skills · Skill Both about guardrail | 65 | ★ 355 | ≈107 always | 16d ago |
| guardrail-runner climate-federation/legoESM · Subagent Both about guardrail and config | 62 | ★ 138 | ≈143 in chat | 16d ago |