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.
In this repository3 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- agentcore-operationsSkill
- agentcore-runtimeSkill
The file
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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- Distinctive: line 17
Read identity propagation for header/signing boundaries and diagnosing failures for controlled hop tests.
- Distinctive: line 24
Check current target-specific credential support and the rendered IaC shape.
- Distinctive: line 25
Do not transfer an OpenAPI workaround to an HTTP, Lambda or MCP target blindly.
- Distinctive: line 27
Never print token values to prove propagation.
- Distinctive: line 28
Test the same scoped caller directly and through Gateway using a non-mutating operation.
- Distinctive: line 30
Verify absent, invalid and conflicting credentials fail as intended.
≈ “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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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
- Draw the actual route: caller → Gateway → interceptor/signing → target → verifier. Record who validates each credential and which identity the target authorizes.
- 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.
- Trace header names through emission, allowlisting, signing and consumption. Never print token values to prove propagation.
- Test the same scoped caller directly and through Gateway using a non-mutating operation. Keep the operation, token scope and time window equivalent.
- 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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