AgentCore harness in now generally available

This article announces the general availability of the managed agent harness in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling rapid agent development from configuration.

• Build production-grade agents in minutes by defining model, tools, skills, and instructions in configuration
• Harness handles orchestration loop, tool execution, context management, state persistence, and failure recovery
• Decouple harness from model to switch providers mid-session without losing context
• Integrated platform provides security policies, organizational knowledge, web search, identity, memory, and observability
• Export to Strands-based code or Claude Agent SDK for custom orchestration without rebuilding
• Available in all AWS Commercial Regions where AgentCore is available

AgentCore harness eliminates the need to build durable agent infrastructure, allowing teams to scale from initial configuration to production without architectural changes.