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A shopper asks ChatGPT for a blue tee in medium. Adobe's July 2026 cohort says 39% of retail homepages still aren't machine-readable — and size, stock, and price live on the PDP, not the slogan. GEO is product facts, not a rank guarantee.
Human approval is a queue with order id and tool trace — not a prompt. The public worksheet uses a $75 refund ceiling above which a person must click Approve. Never auto-approve when the SLA expires.
LangChain composes Bedrock models, tools, and retrieval; AgentCore hosts production agents. Reuse the B2B CRM Gateway canary (~180→95 ms) and 50K-session ~$791/mo silhouette — do not give the model the warehouse.
LangGraph belongs on AgentCore Runtime, not Harness. Reuse the B2B CRM Gateway canary (~180→95 ms) and the 50K-session ~$791/mo platform silhouette — then make graph state explicit.
Your org chart wants five agents before one lookup works. If you are under ~8 tools and one audience, stop — one agent. The ~$791/mo platform cost floor at 50,000 sessions is one support-shaped mix, not five specialists.
Do not staff all five specialists in week one. An open-ended "handle this order" fans out to every agent. Hop cap 2. The ~$791/mo platform cost floor at 50,000 sessions is one support-shaped mix, not a fleet budget.
AgentCore Harness went GA June 17, 2026. Use n8n for process orchestration and @aws/n8n-nodes-agentcore to invoke Harness — pin the ARN in production. Reuse the Gateway ~180→95 ms canary; do not treat n8n as the agent runtime.
Store-connected agents fail at secrets, PII, and payment tools — not at prompts. Support-shaped pilots tracked roughly 3× spend when a browser tool stayed on for lookup turns. Delete payment tools.
A shopper never sees your hero video — an intermediary picks on fields. Adobe July 2026: AI-referrals +62% YoY, 60% higher conversion than non-AI traffic. Optimize the decision inputs agents weigh, not a speculative autopilot checkout.
Monday again: where is my order. That pile is about 18% of helpdesk volume. Look up the scan. Do not invent a 2pm window. We are not publishing a tickets-down number.
On August 19, 2026 AWS enabled live-web fetch for Bedrock Web Search in 3 US Regions. Default external_web_access is true; AmazonBedrockFullAccess still does not grant ExternalWebAccess — and the 403 does not fail the request.
Do not pick AgentCore vs Quick. Pick the surface. Agent Skills are official on Harness and Strands, not Chat Agents. August 2026 list price: 500-employee Quick Professional ~$10,250/mo vs ~$791 AgentCore at 50K sessions.