Agents are now first-class citizens of every service in tech

By Rohan Kataria · Oct 21, 2026

Key points

  • More and more services are being designed for agents, so an agent needs its own identity, scoped permissions and a trace of every step.

  • I made AWS Bedrock AgentCore our standard for running agents.

  • AgentCore provides identity, policy (permissions as rules), observability (a trace of every step), a runtime with session isolation, and short and long term memory out of the box.

  • AgentCore also provides a gateway that makes tools available to agents, a registry for skills and tools, evaluations, and a sandboxed browser and code interpreter.

Coinbase Platform post: AI agents get the same identity and access controls as human employees

Image: Coinbase Platform post on X

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