How we built an MCP bridge to give our AgentCore-hosted AI agent access to local MCP tools
AWS released an MCP bridge enabling Bedrock AgentCore cloud-hosted agents to securely call local MCP servers on user laptops via WebSocket tunneling through a browser extension and Chrome native messaging.
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How we built an MCP bridge to give our AgentCore-hosted AI agent access to local MCP tools
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AWS released an MCP bridge enabling Bedrock AgentCore cloud-hosted agents to securely call local MCP servers on user laptops via WebSocket tunneling through a browser extension and Chrome native messaging.
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