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How we built an MCP bridge to give our AgentCore-hosted AI agent access to local MCP tools

calendar_today August 5, 2026 person Rohan Lekhwani domain amazon-lex

AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore run in the cloud, but users’ tools and files live on their laptops. Learn how to build a secure MCP bridge that lets a cloud-hosted agent call local MCP servers by tunneling signed messages over the existing WebSocket connection through a browser extension and Chrome native messaging, with no open ports or VPN required.

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