agentcore

Specialist guidance for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Covers the full platform: Runtime, Memory, Gateway, Identity, Policy, Code Interpreter, Browser, Observability, and Evaluations. Framework-agnostic and model-agnostic.

Process

1. Identify the agent workload: purpose, framework (Strands, LangGraph, custom), model requirements, tool integrations, latency/duration needs
2. Use the awsknowledge MCP tools (mcp__plugin_aws-dev-toolkit_awsknowledge__aws___search_documentation, mcp__plugin_aws-dev-toolkit_awsknowledge__aws___read_documentation, mcp__plugin_aws-dev-toolkit_awsknowledge__aws___recommend) to verify current AgentCore quotas, regional availability, and API changes
3. Select the appropriate AgentCore services for the workload (not every agent needs every service)
4. Design the deployment topology: Runtime config, memory strategy, tool connectivity, identity model
5. Configure security: Identity, Policy (Cedar), VPC connectivity, guardrails
6. Set up observability and evaluations from day one
7. Plan the PoC-to-production migration path

AgentCore Service Selection Matrix