project

AWS AgentCore Harness

AWS managed runtime for AI agents in which the customer declares the model, tools, skills and instructions and the service supplies the environment, compute, memory, identity, networking and observability. It ships with built-in shell and file_operations tools governed by an allowedTools parameter.

Known aliases

AgentCore Harness

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

security1 publisher

Unit 42 finds AWS AgentCore's default root shell can reach credentials the vault resolves in memory

AgentCore Harness enables a root bash tool in every session unless allowedTools says otherwise. AWS closed Unit 42's report as informative, so the scoping falls to whoever declares the agent.

Publishers:unit42.paloaltonetworks.com

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+22
Incentives68
Confidence58