Store and retrieve objects in Amazon S3
Amazon S3 ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 9 actions, 1 health check, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.
io.w6w.s3Amazon S3 brings core object storage into a workflow — creating and deleting buckets, and uploading, downloading, copying, listing and inspecting objects inside them. Every request is signed and verified locally against AWS’s own published test vectors, so no separate AWS SDK or credential-handling library is needed.
Object actions support both text and base64-encoded content for upload and download, list objects with pagination for buckets holding many items, and copy an object between buckets or keys without downloading and re-uploading it. Bucket actions cover the basic lifecycle of creating and removing a bucket, and a dedicated metadata-only action checks an object’s existence and size without transferring its contents.
The app works against any of AWS’s regional S3 endpoints, chosen by the region configured on the connection, with no AWS-specific SDK dependency required in any of them.
Three routes to the same 9 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Amazon S3's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.
object-head Check whether an object exists and read its metadata without downloading it.
A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the
connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the
workflow spec, carrying Amazon S3's real ids.
{
"manifestVersion": "2",
"name": "s3-example",
"steps": [
{
"id": "bucket-create",
"uses": {
"app": "io.w6w.s3",
"action": "bucket-create",
"connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
},
"with": {
"bucket": "<bucket>"
}
}
]
}bucket-create bucket-list object-copy object-get object-head +4 more actions available
Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An
app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the
address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account,
so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Amazon S3, then fill in
the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the
parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed
from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but
nothing in it is specific to Amazon S3. The Workflow tab is where this app's
real ids are.
npm install @w6w/sdkyarn add @w6w/sdkpnpm add @w6w/sdkdeno add npm:@w6w/sdkimport { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";
// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();
const envelope = await client.run({
urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
action: "object-put",
payload: {
bucket: "<value>",
key: "<value>",
content: "<value>",
// encoding: "<value>",
// contentType: "<value>",
// acl: "<value>",
// metadata: "<value>",
},
});
if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value); npm install -g @w6w/cli w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action object-put --payload '{"bucket":"<value>","key":"<value>","content":"<value>"}' Give an AI agent Amazon S3 — without giving it Amazon S3's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.
One tool call{
"name": "w6w_invoke",
"arguments": {
"ref": "app:io.w6w.s3#bucket-create",
"input": {
"bucket": "<bucket>"
}
}
}
Every tool names its target with a single ref. The
app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the
host resolves which of the caller's Amazon S3 connections to sign
with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.
The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.
Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.
Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.
Amazon S3's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.
The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Amazon S3 itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).
Amazon S3 declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.
AWS's public Service Health Dashboard current-events feed, filtered to S3's per-region services. Unauthenticated and unsigned.