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title: "connect - Air Market"
description: "Your agent needs to reach services outside itself, and you also need to limit what it is allowed to call. This covers wiring up that connection, handling the credentials it needs, and writing the pol…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/agents-connect"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / connect

Skill by [Amazon Web Services](/@aws)

# connect

Give your agent tools, and decide which ones it may touch

## What this does

Your agent needs to reach services outside itself, and you also need to limit what it is allowed to call. This covers wiring up that connection, handling the credentials it needs, and writing the policies that fence in tool access. Reach for it when adding tools to an agent, or when a key that worked locally is missing after deploy.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Connect your agent to an outside API
- Set up a gateway and its targets
- Get outbound credentials working

## Information

**connect at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Amazon Web Services](/@aws) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Version | 1.0.0 |
| Size | 39 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws](https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/14780bf3440aa1532eadfbb2ff547f58969fcfb2/plugins/aws-agents/skills/agents-connect) |
| GitHub stars | 2,420 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 2,070, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of connect and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What connect's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 14780bf3440aa1532eadfbb2ff547f58969fcfb2 |
| Content hash | 5b889c44695a6d52aaeaafc68887885092332cd3a9f1919e6feaf50f7a4d6077 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/blob/14780bf3440aa1532eadfbb2ff547f58969fcfb2/plugins/aws-agents/skills/agents-connect/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for connect](/security/agents-connect)

## About connect

For connecting your agent to external APIs, tools, or services through a Gateway, and for restricting tool access with Cedar policies. It handles gateway setup, target types, and the choice of a gateway target in the first place.

It also covers outbound auth - OAuth, API key, IAM - along with credential storage and the errors around it, including keys that come back empty after a deploy, and authoring the Cedar policies that restrict which tools an agent may use.

It is not for inbound auth, which is about who can call your agent, nor for debugging agent behavior, VPC networking errors, or creating and hosting a new MCP server project; other skills in the set cover each of those.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/policy.md - reference

## Questions

### Is connect safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of connect and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 14780bf3440a, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/agents-connect.

### How do I install connect?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/agents-connect on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/14780bf3440aa1532eadfbb2ff547f58969fcfb2/plugins/aws-agents/skills/agents-connect. Install from that link, not the branch.

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- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/agents-connect>