Prerequisites - Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is in preview release and is subject to change.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, verify that you have the following:

  • An AWS account with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore permissions

  • installed and configured with appropriate credentials. For setup instructions, see Installing or updating to the latest version of the .

  • One of the supported MCP clients:

    • Kiro

    • Cursor

    • Claude Code

    • Amazon Q CLI

  • An existing AgentCore agent built with a supported framework (Strands Agents, LangGraph, CrewAI, or similar)

For more information about Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, see the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore documentation.

Install required dependencies

Install the necessary packages for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore development.

To install the required packages, run the following commands:

# Install AgentCore dependencies pip install bedrock-agentcore pip install bedrock-agentcore-starter-toolkit