Add secure Web Search to Claude Desktop with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
TL;DR
Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock is limited to the model's knowledge cutoff without web search. In this post, we walk through connecting Claude Desktop to Web Search using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, with JWT-based inbound authentication through AWS IAM Identity Center and Amazon Cognito.
Nauti's Take
For a small team, the first test should focus on the authentication path: use non-sensitive data to verify which identity reaches the gateway and search service, and what gets logged. Then compare the setup with a direct web-search API, because AgentCore adds infrastructure and ongoing AWS costs to the workflow.
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