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Introducing agent quality optimization in AgentCore, now in preview

Generate recommendations from production traces, validate them with batch evaluation and A/B testing, and ship with confidence. AI agents that perform well at launch don’t stay that way. As models evolve, user behavior shifts, and prompts get reused in new contexts they were never designed for. Agent quality quietly degrades. In most teams, the improvement process still looks the same: without automatic feedback loops, when a user complains, a developer reads through traces, forms a hypothesis, rewrites the prompt, tests a handful of cases, and ships the fix. Then the cycle repeats, often introducing a new issue for a different user. Up until today, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provided the pieces for you to debug it manually or build custom implementations: check the evaluation scores to detect quality drop, deep dive into the traces to determine the root cause and update the agent with an improved configuration. The developer is the performance engine relying on intuition rather than on systematic data-backed evidence. Dedicated science teams and large centralized benchmarks help, but they are neither a practical nor timely solution for most product teams. Even when you have that machinery, it tends to move on weekly or monthly cycles, while agents drift in production every day. AgentCore is the platform to build, connect, and optimize agents at scale, with security enforced at the infrastructure layer. Thousands of developers already use AgentCore to build agents that reason, plan, and act across complex workflows. Today we are announcing new capabilities in AgentCore that complete the observe, evaluate, improve loop for agent performance and quality: recommendations and two ways to validate them. Recommendations analyze production traces and evaluation outputs to optimize your system prompt or tool descriptions for the evaluator you specify. Batch evaluation helps test the recommendation against a pre-defined test dataset and reports aggregate scores, catching regressions on cases you know matter. When hand-authored scenarios aren't enough, you can also simulate a dataset using an LLM-backed actor to play the role of an end user. A/B testing runs a controlled comparison between versions of an agent through AgentCore Gateway, splitting live production traffic at the percentage you configure and reporting results with confidence intervals and statistical significance. Recommendations propose changes, batch evaluation and A/B testing validate them, and together they replace the manual cycle of reading traces, guessing at fixes, and deploying blind.

深度分析

AgentCore 的质量优化飞轮代表了一种从直觉驱动到数据驱动的根本范式转变。传统 AI agent 优化严重依赖开发者个人经验——阅读 trace、形成假设、重写 prompt、测试少量案例后部署。这种手动循环不仅效率低下，而且容易引入新的问题，尤其在没有自动反馈机制的情况下，每次修复都可能为另一类用户创造新的边缘案例。AgentCore 的新能力通过三个核心组件构建了完整的自动化优化闭环：Recommendations 从生产环境 trace 和评估输出中学习，自动生成针对特定 evaluator 的系统 prompt 或工具描述优化建议；Batch Evaluation 在离线环境中使用预定义测试数据集验证推荐质量；A/B Testing 则通过 AgentCore Gateway 在生产流量上进行统计显著的对照实验。这种"观察-评估-改进"的三阶段循环将优化周期从周级别缩短到天级别，同时确保每一步决策都有数据支撑而非主观臆断。

从架构角度看，AgentCore 的设计将配置与代码解耦——配置以不可变版本化 bundle 的形式存储，包含模型 ID、系统 prompt、工具描述等运行时参数，agent 通过 SDK 动态读取活跃配置。这意味着切换 prompt 或模型只是配置变更而非代码变更，大幅降低了实验和回滚的复杂度。结合 OpenTelemetry 兼容的 trace 收集机制，每个模型调用、工具调用和推理步骤都被完整记录，为Recommendations 的分析和优化提供了丰富的原始数据。

展望未来，AgentCore 的愿景是让这个飞轮自主运转：推荐系统将权衡多个 evaluator 的表现并揭示其中的权衡取舍；优化范围将从 prompt 和工具描述扩展到 skills 层面；Trace 分析将聚类生产环境中的失败模式以预防性问题；监控告警将自动触发推荐和验证流程。这种演进路径体现了 AI agent 运维从手工操作向规模化自动化的必然发展趋势。

实践启示

建立系统化的评估体系：在引入 AgentCore 之前，团队应首先明确自己的 reward signal——即衡量 agent 质量的核心指标。AgentCore 支持内置 evaluator（目标成功率、工具选择准确性、有用性、安全性）和自定义 LLM-as-judge 评分体系。建议从一开始就定义好评估维度并建立 ground-truth 对比基准，这将直接影响后续 Recommendations 的优化方向。没有清晰的评估标准，数据驱动的优化无从谈起。

从小处着手，逐步扩大闭环：初次使用 AgentCore 时，建议选择特定的、高价值的场景作为切入点。例如选择"模型升级"场景作为第一个完整的优化循环——因为这类变更相对清晰且影响可量化。通过 Market Trends Agent 示例验证完整流程：生成推荐发现 agent 在个性化建议或跨部门工具选择上的不足，将变更打包为配置 bundle，通过 Batch Evaluation 验证修复效果，最终通过 A/B Testing 在真实 broker 会话中确认统计显著的改进后再推广到全量生产流量。

将质量验证嵌入 CI/CD 流程：Batch Evaluation 的关键价值在于回归测试——确保每次配置变更不会破坏已有的已知良好用例。建议将 Batch Evaluation 集成到 CI/CD 流水线中，任何配置 bundle 在到达生产环境前都必须通过预设测试集的质量门槛。这种"门禁"机制可以有效防止负向优化累积，让团队在保持迭代速度的同时不牺牲质量稳定性。

设计有效的 A/B 测试策略：在线上进行 A/B 测试时，需要合理配置流量分割比例以在统计显著性和业务风险之间取得平衡。NTT DATA 和 Nomura Research Institute 的实践表明，通过从生产 trace 数据中导出改进建议，再用 A/B 测试验证其实际影响，可以在保证准确性和有效性的前提下实现规模化的高效改进。建议在测试初期采用较小流量比例（如 5-10%），待积累足够数据后再做出统计显著的判断。

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