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agentcore-gateway

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Configure or diagnose Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway target authentication, JWT caller propagation, request interceptors and opaque upstream errors. Use when a direct API works but Gateway fails, or when mapping inbound identity to outbound target credentials.

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We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

6 rules. About 0 are common, 6 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

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    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

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    Distinctive · estimate

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  1. Distinctive:

    Read identity propagation for header/signing boundaries and diagnosing failures for controlled hop tests.

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  2. Distinctive:

    Check current target-specific credential support and the rendered IaC shape.

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  3. Distinctive:

    Do not transfer an OpenAPI workaround to an HTTP, Lambda or MCP target blindly.

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  4. Distinctive:

    Never print token values to prove propagation.

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  5. Distinctive:

    Test the same scoped caller directly and through Gateway using a non-mutating operation.

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  6. Distinctive:

    Verify absent, invalid and conflicting credentials fail as intended.

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

Trace identity across the Gateway hop

Identify the target type, inbound authorizer, outbound credential provider, interceptor and upstream verifier. These are separate decisions. Preserve the user's existing identity model; a shared service credential is not automatically a replacement for per-caller authorization.

Read identity propagation for header/signing boundaries and diagnosing failures for controlled hop tests.

Workflow

  1. Draw the actual route: caller → Gateway → interceptor/signing → target → verifier. Record who validates each credential and which identity the target authorizes.
  2. Check current target-specific credential support and the rendered IaC shape. Do not transfer an OpenAPI workaround to an HTTP, Lambda or MCP target blindly.
  3. Trace header names through emission, allowlisting, signing and consumption. Never print token values to prove propagation.
  4. Test the same scoped caller directly and through Gateway using a non-mutating operation. Keep the operation, token scope and time window equivalent.
  5. Verify absent, invalid and conflicting credentials fail as intended. Report the boundary isolated by evidence, not a guessed cause from a generic error string.

The offline header test models one historical SigV4-plus-forwarded-bearer design. It checks a contract, not live AWS signing or JWT cryptography. Deployment changes remain subject to the user's authorized scope.

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