connect

Give your AgentCore agent access to external APIs, tools, and services via the AgentCore Gateway — and control what it can access with Cedar policies.

When to use

• You want your agent to call an external API or MCP server
• You want to expose Lambda functions as agent tools
• You have an OpenAPI spec you want to turn into agent tools
• Your agent needs credentials to call an external service
• You want to restrict which tools your agent can call (Cedar policies)
• You want role-based or amount-based access control on tool calls
• A gateway connection, tool call, or policy authorization is failing

For adding Cedar policies to control tool access, load references/policy.md.

Input

$ARGUMENTS is optional: