Getting started with Amazon SES Agent Skills for AI-assisted email development
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This article introduces Amazon SES Agent Skills, an open-source toolkit that enables AI coding agents to build email integrations correctly using Amazon SES.
- Agent skills provide structured context for AI agents to use AWS services properly
- Two skills available: aws-ses for sending email, aws-mail-manager for receiving/processing
- Skills teach correct API versions (SES V2, not legacy V1) and required workflows
- Includes production-ready patterns for tenant isolation, bounce handling, email validation
- Provides executable examples in Python, Node.js, and Java
- Install via: npx skills add amazon-ses/skills
- Works with Kiro, Claude Code, and compatible AI agents
- Available on GitHub under Apache-2.0 license
Amazon SES Agent Skills accelerate email infrastructure development by giving AI agents domain-specific knowledge to avoid common mistakes and follow best practices from the start.
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