Claude Skill to create DDB-backed endpoints in AWS

Sometimes I just need a place to put stuff that's not local. Apps exist that it make it easy to create an endpoint but I figured it was easier and cheaper to just make a skill.

From the description: Create a token-secured REST API endpoint backed by AWS Lambda and DynamoDB with full CRUD and paginated list support. Deploys via CloudFormation. Use when user wants to quickly spin up an API endpoint, create a simple REST API on AWS, build a quick data store with an API, set up a Lambda+DynamoDB endpoint, or needs a fast way to log and retrieve structured data. Triggers on "create an endpoint", "quick API", "Lambda endpoint", "DynamoDB API", "CRUD endpoint", "log data to AWS".

Example use: Thariq's recent post on how the team uses Claude Skills has a section on logging skill use with a PreToolUse hook (https://x.com/trq212/status/2033949937936085378). His example code shows logging to a local file but for company-wide tracking, you'd want to log to a central place. I used my skill to stand up an endpoint for this and my ~/.claude/hooks/log-skill.sh POSTS to it:

skill=$(echo "$prompt" | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's|^/||') args=$(echo "$prompt" | sed 's|^/[^ ]||' | sed 's|^ ||')

# Build the JSON body body=$(jq -nc \ --arg skill_name "$skill" \ --arg invoked_by "$USER" \ --arg args "$args" \ --arg session_id "$session_id" \ '{skill_name: $skill_name, invoked_by: $invoked_by, args: $args, session_id: $session_id}')

# POST to the endpoint (fire-and-forget so we don't block the prompt) curl -sf -X POST "$ENDPOINT" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "x-api-token: ${SKILL_LOG_TOKEN}" \ -d "$body" \ >/dev/null 2>&1 &