A notes agent behind a locked door, with two separate mailboxes labeled alice and bob

Building an Agent on Bedrock AgentCore, Part 5: Whose Notes Are These?

Last time I gave the agent real tools behind a real Gateway, then told you — in bold — that the front door was propped open with a brick. Anyone with the URL could list every note, write garbage, run your Bedrock bill for sport. “The fix has earned its own post,” I said. This is that post. But the lock isn’t even the interesting part. The interesting part is what comes after the lock: alice and bob become two different people instead of one undifferentiated “demo-user” sharing a single pile. The agent knows who’s talking to it, their notes are theirs, and the model had absolutely no say in making that happen. ...

July 13, 2026 · 9 min · Ken Kitts