# Agent tools for ElastiCache
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AI coding agents can use ElastiCache through purpose-built integrations from the AWS Agent Toolkit. These integrations provide service-specific guidance, reference material, and safety checks so an agent can evaluate, create, connect to, and operate ElastiCache workloads correctly.

This section covers the available agent tools and how to set them up.

**Topics**
+ [Work with Amazon ElastiCache using agent skills](agent-tools-skills.md)
+ [Work with Amazon ElastiCache using Valkey MCP](agent-tools-valkey-mcp.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon ElastiCache. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query AmazonElastiCache` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).