Use with AI Coding Agents

cdkd is a natural fit for AI-driven development: agents iterate in tight spin-up / tear-down loops, and cdkd keeps each turn short with fast deploys and an equally fast cdkd destroy.

The cdkd repository ships a cdkd skill that teaches AI coding agents to use cdkd safely: install, AWS preflight checks, preview and deployment, wait modes, verification, CloudFormation migration boundaries, and destructive-operation safety.

Claude Code

Install it as a plugin (one-time setup, available in every session) by running these inside a Claude Code session:

/plugin marketplace add go-to-k/cdkd
/plugin install cdkd-skills@cdkd

Then ask Claude to deploy a dev/test CDK stack with cdkd — the skill triggers automatically — or invoke it directly with /cdkd.

Other agents (Codex, Cursor, and more)

Any agent that supports the SKILL.md format can use the skill. Install it with the GitHub CLI (v2.90+) or npx skills:

gh skill install go-to-k/cdkd cdkd
# or
npx skills add go-to-k/cdkd --skill cdkd

Contributors

To test the current checkout against another CDK project, clone the repository and add it to a Claude Code session — the project-scoped /use-cdkd skill covers building and linking the checkout:

claude --add-dir /path/to/cdkd

This documentation site is AI-friendly too

Agents can consume these docs directly as Markdown:

Every page on this site has a raw-Markdown companion, advertised via a <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"> tag in the page head — an agent can fetch the exact source of the page it is reading.
The site publishes an llms.txt index, so an agent can discover every page from a single well-known entry point.