Insights & Resources

HITL is a queue with session id and tool trace — not a prompt. Reuse Gateway ~180 to 95 ms and ~$791/mo at 50K sessions. Do not auto-approve on SLA timeout.

LangChain composes Bedrock models, tools, and retrieval; AgentCore hosts production agents. Reuse the B2B CRM Gateway canary (~180→95 ms) and 50K-session ~$791/mo silhouette — do not give the model the warehouse.

LangGraph belongs on AgentCore Runtime, not Harness. Reuse the B2B CRM Gateway canary (~180→95 ms) and the 50K-session ~$791/mo platform silhouette — then make graph state explicit.

AgentCore Harness went GA June 17, 2026. Use n8n for process orchestration and @aws/n8n-nodes-agentcore to invoke Harness — pin the ARN in production. Reuse the Gateway ~180→95 ms canary; do not treat n8n as the agent runtime.

Store-connected agents fail at secrets, PII, and payment tools — not at prompts. Reuse Gateway ~180 to 95 ms and ~$791/mo at 50K sessions. Cedar LOG_ONLY then ENFORCE.

Adobe Analytics (1T+ visits): July 2026 AI-referrals to U.S. retail +62% YoY, 60% higher conversion than non-AI, 53% more revenue per visit. Optimize the decision inputs agents weigh — not a speculative autopilot checkout.

WISMO is about 18% of helpdesk volume (Gorgias, via Redo) — automate lookup and delay notice, not invented ETAs. Reuse Gateway ~180 ms to ~95 ms and the ~$791/mo AgentCore silhouette.

On August 19, 2026 AWS enabled live-web fetch for Bedrock Web Search in 3 US Regions. Default external_web_access is true; AmazonBedrockFullAccess still does not grant ExternalWebAccess — and the 403 does not fail the request.

Do not pick AgentCore vs Quick. Pick the surface. Agent Skills are official on Harness and Strands, not Chat Agents. August 2026 list price: 500-employee Quick Professional ~$10,250/mo vs ~$791 AgentCore at 50K sessions.

On Aug 7, 2026, AWS shipped aws-auth as a core Cognito skill in the Agent Toolkit—603 installs on skills.sh within days, 9 reference packs under skills/core-skills/aws-auth, and a hard warning that update-user-pool-client is a full replace.

Harness GA Jun 17, 2026 plus Strands 1.0 primitives — and why AWS Context is still Coming soon. Reuse the ~180→95 ms Gateway canary; ship Managed KB today.

On Aug 6, 2026 AgentCore Runtime Instances went GA — EC2-backed agents with sessions up to 14 days vs 8-hour microVM Runtime. Field guide: capacity providers, GPU fit, and when idle EC2 burns more than serverless.