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Staff Sales, Customer, Inventory, Product, and Finance as optional specialists — not week one. Supervisor + hop caps. Reuse Gateway ~180 to 95 ms and ~$791/mo at 50K sessions.
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.
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.
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.
Supervisor + 4 commerce specialists on AgentCore Runtime: 8 Gateway tools, Cedar write gates, and the same ~180→95 ms Gateway canary signal — sample architecture, not a client engagement.
February 2026 server-side tool execution via AgentCore Gateway + Responses API cut median tool-round-trip latency ~180 ms → ~95 ms on a 12-tool SaaS CRM assistant by removing the client orchestration hop.
First-party TCO benchmark (July 2026): 500-employee Quick Suite ~$3,580/mo vs AgentCore support agent ~$791/mo at 50K sessions. CTO framework for choosing managed assistants vs custom agent infrastructure on AWS.
Q2 2026 ranked: AgentCore Harness GA (Jun 17), FinOps Agent preview (Jun 9), Graviton5 GA (Jun 10), OpenAI on Bedrock (Apr 28). Adoption matrix + verified TCO signals for CTOs.