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Generally available August 31 in five regions, registering MCP servers with their tools and prompts, A2A agent card definitions, agent skills written as markdown with associated code, and custom JSON descriptors (AWS). It exposes its own search through an MCP server so agents can discover registered capabilities programmatically, wires approval workflows through EventBridge with CloudTrail audit trails, and picks OAuth or IAM per registry instance. Consumption-based pricing with Free Tier eligibility.
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AWS's August 21 post stages agent tool governance as Connect, Control, Catalog and Harden, from one SSO-backed MCP endpoint for a 1-20 user pilot through identity-aware authorization with PII redaction and self-service tool publishing at 100+ users. It supports Cognito-backed...
Agentic Resource Discovery went up August 24 at agenticresourcediscovery.org under Apache 2.0, contributed to but not authored by AWS (AWS ML Blog). It lets agent, tool and skill registries federate across clouds, on-prem and SaaS without bilateral connectors. AWS Agent Regist...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
If you wrote an MCP server before July, it's on a protocol shape the maintainers have already removed. Not deprecated-with-a-migration-window. Removed from the spec. MCP lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky published an updated roadmap on August 22, and the re...
AWS shipped per-user, per-target rate limiting August 6 covering MCP targets, inference targets and HTTP passthrough across three metrics: requests (RPS/RPM), tokens (TPM, inference only), connections (CPS). Limits scope by JWT claims ($.context.jwt.sub, .role, .azp) or IAM id...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
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