Agent Speedrun — Elizabeth Fuentes Leone & Sandhya Subramani, AWS
A customer service agent looks up an account, checks an order, and handles a refund.
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Key points
- The harder part is controlling what happens between those steps and keeping that control when the agent reaches production.
- Elizabeth Fuentes Leone and Sandhya Subramani build the workflow with Strands Agents, starting with a system prompt and three tools backed by mock customer data.
- They inspect messages and tool calls, add a conversational interface, then introduce a hook that limits tool invocations.
- 2:36 - AgentCore runtime and services
Sources (1)
- [1]Agent Speedrun — Elizabeth Fuentes Leone & Sandhya Subramani, AWSAI Engineer (YouTube) · Oct 11, 03:00 PM
A customer service agent looks up an account, checks an order, and handles a refund.
The harder part is controlling what happens between those steps and keeping that control when the agent reaches production.
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